Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there standing in front of me was Sebastian . |
| 2 | In front of me were rows and rows of condoms : plain , ribbed ( ribbed ? ) , thick , thin , multicoloured … |
| 3 | I went to bed utterly content ; ahead of me were weeks of hunting and travel in remote mountains , and later the excitement of exploring the Danakil desert . |
| 4 | This particular airfield had been chosen for the test-flight because it was surrounded by open country , and there in front of me were fields from which I could choose . |
| 5 | Most of them were youths throwing bottles . |
| 6 | There were two other bishops in Wales at this time , at Llandaff and St Davids : both of them were Welshmen , and both adhered to the customs of the Celtic Church . |
| 7 | However , nobody has recorded the progress of the likes of Peter M'kata , Eric Majola , Solomon Mhlaba , Gassiem Jabaar , Bomza Nkohla , Salie Fredericks , Ronnie Louw , Cissie Damons , Lenny Mathews or Desmond Kramer , although virtually all of them were players of note , arguably the best of their generation . |
| 8 | Most of them were clerks or shop assistants , although there were one or two manual workers , a couple worked on the railways ; nobody was upper class . |
| 9 | Many of them were towns before the Romans came ; a few remained towns for a generation longer . |
| 10 | All three of them were adults now , supposedly able to cope with the crises life flung at them . |
| 11 | He was still shooting , but most of them were girls , you know . ’ |
| 12 | After an early miscarriage she bore Louis just two children in fourteen years , and both of them were girls . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's followed the Schimmel collection with a very strong mixed-owner sale that featured an unusually high percentage of Roman marbles — word from the trade was that many of them were Basia Johnson 's . |
| 14 | Many of them were students who worked their passage to Liverpool as cattlemen aboard the cattle-steamers before the days of full-scale refrigeration , and used the Liverpool office to cash their generous allowances . |
| 15 | most of them were secretary , audio typist |
| 16 | Most of them were females , although there were a few of the giant males among them . |
| 17 | Erm and of course if you had half a dozen students , and two of them were extroverts , and they both wanted to go , and they both said , Yeah . |
| 18 | In the middle of them were Mrs Phipps and Mrs Taylor , our neighbours , sitting on the step crying . |
| 19 | I thought some of them were Greeks . ’ |
| 20 | Most of them were civilians . |
| 21 | Most of them were widows and were re-admitted without problems . |
| 22 | And my sisters three of them were teachers . |
| 23 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 24 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 25 | There were eleven men in the boat , but three of them were prisoners . |
| 26 | Both of them were professionals , the only difference being that Trent was on the side of the law . |
| 27 | A lot of coins were thrown into the guitar case and some of them were pounds . |
| 28 | Many of them were lawyers employed by those companies to find loopholes in environmental protection laws . |
| 29 | Yet as of 1922 the political reliability of the teachers was notoriously low : large numbers of them were remnants from the old regime . |
| 30 | In October 1922 , 326 male vagabonds were received in one fortnight ; 200 of them were ex-soldiers . |