Example sentences of "they were [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |
| 2 | These black clouds were formed of insects called cockchafers , or " flying bugs " , as the English called them ; they were black as pitch and quite harmless , but with a sickening odour which they lent to anything they touched . |
| 3 | They were active as railway architects , and the stations on the main line between Newcastle and Berwick-on-Tweed , commissioned by George Hudson [ q.v. ] in 1846 — ‘ Fine , handsome buildings … more like the villas raised by retired tradesmen than residences for railway officers ’ — are said to have been by him . |
| 4 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 5 | They were longer than Mama 's and Mama 's were false . |