Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] were [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 FOUR dogs are today on ‘ death row ’ after a court decided they were illegally-owned pit bull terriers .
2 I thought yours were same make .
3 ‘ I knew you were all heart really Joe .
4 I thought you were asleep love .
5 I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’
6 He had continued to attend the meetings fairly regularly and still felt they were good fun , with everyone enjoying themselves enormously .
7 Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them .
8 He knew they were all slate quarry workers and they were prepared to work the slate again .
9 So I thought they were all part of a jokey game .
10 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 .
11 What 's more I did n't realise Genesis was that type of band — I thought they were Black Sabbath !
12 What 's more I did n't realise Genesis was that type of band — I thought they were Black Sabbath !
13 ‘ I thought they were another company , personal enemies .
14 At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections .
15 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 .
16 Said you were top brass and that I could talk to you as if you were the Commissioner himself . "
17 Therese who had made us very welcome said we were fantastic company and that the weekend was enjoyable .
18 But I mean but Joe said they were actual bite marks and it was n't
19 the people , most of the people I knew who said they were happy living in their flat
20 Darlington borough council , Wear Valley and Sedgefield district councils said they were worst hit by the spending limits .
21 Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six .
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