Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 2 | In other words , the later dinosaurs were nearer to us in time than their own earliest members . |
| 3 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were interested in me as a person , interested in what I felt and believed . |
| 5 | The consensus that emerged about the teachers who had mattered to them was neither that they were strict nor that they were liberal , but simply that they were interested in them as people . |
| 6 | People were interested in it for about five minutes . |
| 7 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
| 8 | There were 12 of us on the boat and three full time crew . |
| 9 | This year there were 49 of us from various parishes in Carlisle and from Cockermouth , Cleator Moor , Whitehaven and Penrith . |
| 10 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 11 | ‘ And people were afraid of him of course . |
| 12 | Perhaps they were afraid of me at first . |
| 13 | When a they were sent home from we went home from this quarry then , and the everybody went home so the the were forty of us in altogether . |
| 14 | There were forty-eight of us in the Section . |
| 15 | But she had gone up before him , her narrow back and bunched skirts all that were visible of her from below . |
| 16 | There were six of us on the course , all aiming to get the RYA ( Royal Yachting Association ) Level 1 Certificate . |
| 17 | Dead on ten there were six of us on chairs and ‘ Sergeant ’ Waters standing by the overhead . |
| 18 | There were six of us in our room with many a quarrel breaking out amongst us . |
| 19 | There were three of them with ribbons and pins , in the back left-hand corner of his drawer . |
| 20 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
| 21 | ‘ There were three of us in here , ’ said Porter slowly , his gaze flicking from one visitor to the other , but always returning to Anne Hopper . |
| 22 | ‘ Both my elder daughters fell under influences that were unwelcome to me in their teens because of school , ’ she says . |
| 23 | When being questioned by magistrates about her teaching ( they were suspicious of her on the grounds of her sex and lack of social position ) she is confident that a greater Lord will answer for her . |
| 24 | There were 35 of us on top of the Eiger : Edwin Drummond 's Climb for the World dream realised at last . |
| 25 | Cook was making fresh cornbread rolls for breakfast and lesser mortals were hard at it with brooms and mops . |
| 26 | And they were glad of them during the war . |
| 27 | The British were involved with them through us and it was their advanced work on breaking cyphers that enabled the ring to establish such a great record . |
| 28 | The mill 's history is inextricably bound up with that of the Wilkins family , who were involved with it from 1840 to 1947 . |
| 29 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 30 | Moderator when the general assembly of nineteen ninety sent down the draft statement of faith , I and others were unhappy with it on a number of counts . |