Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 2 | The following table shows a surge in the number of female actuaries over the last decade an also demonstrates how male dominated we were 60 years ago . |
| 3 | It was only three nights later that we discovered they were tiny insects . |
| 4 | FOUR dogs are today on ‘ death row ’ after a court decided they were illegally-owned pit bull terriers . |
| 5 | But fund-raisers who have supported a public appeal to buy an identical scanner for the Northallerton Friarage Hospital admitted they were disappointed Northallerton health authority 's bid had been turned down . |
| 6 | I thought yours were same make . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew you were all heart really Joe . |
| 8 | I thought you were asleep love . |
| 9 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 10 | I thought we were all biologists these days ! |
| 11 | It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’ |
| 12 | He had continued to attend the meetings fairly regularly and still felt they were good fun , with everyone enjoying themselves enormously . |
| 13 | As I got nearer , I saw they were young people , mostly in their late teens and early twenties . |
| 14 | But when I looked a bit closer , I saw they were advertising gigs that were happening there next week . ’ |
| 15 | Waterman hit back saying both Kylie and Jason knew they were successful actors before their pop success and were aware of the dangers . |
| 16 | Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them . |
| 17 | He knew they were all slate quarry workers and they were prepared to work the slate again . |
| 18 | What persuaded him were two bits of Temple 's mind which he could not mistake . |
| 19 | I thought they were milky bars likely . |
| 20 | So I thought they were all part of a jokey game . |
| 21 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 22 | What 's more I did n't realise Genesis was that type of band — I thought they were Black Sabbath ! |
| 23 | What 's more I did n't realise Genesis was that type of band — I thought they were Black Sabbath ! |
| 24 | Like Paula , I thought they were old ledgers and I did n't take much notice . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought they were another company , personal enemies . |
| 26 | " I do n't know why , " Mrs. Favor said , " I thought they were Indian beads . " |
| 27 | They were a couple in their mid-fifties , I 'd say , but dressed like they thought they were twenty years younger . |
| 28 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |
| 29 | I thought they were isolated incidents . ’ |
| 30 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |