Example sentences of "were [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and me mam were singing it the other night . |
| 2 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 3 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 4 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 5 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 6 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 7 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 8 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 9 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 10 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |