Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this were what would it be , about twenty to seven . |
| 2 | Indeed if this were its intended effect , it is difficult to see why the subsection goes on to say that it is not necessary to obtain the parents ' consent , rather than providing that such consent , if obtained , should be ineffective . |
| 3 | I kept thinking to myself , Typical Jamila , that 's exactly what she would do , as if this were something that happened every day . |
| 4 | She made it sound as though this were something illegal . |
| 5 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 6 | I remember when all this were nowt but fields , and people released simple horizontally scrolling blasters for the C64 . |
| 7 | ‘ If this were my life , ’ he says softly , ‘ I 'd be living in a hotel made of chocolate sponge cake and organ music . |
| 8 | I mean some of them wanted to pay but I said no you helped us to feed them so , this , this were me dad 's idea you see , he was always very fair-minded me dad was . |
| 9 | At this were his knights little pleased . |
| 10 | He was filmed prancing round the forecourt like a wayward member of a modern dance troupe ; the witnesses in the passing cars would n't just have noticed his approach , they would probably have pulled up to watch , so bizarre and entertaining were his surreptitious motions . |
| 11 | The results of this survey would have been entertaining were it not for the fact that this is such a serious subject . |
| 12 | Edwin , I would be utterly desolate were it not for my faithful companion here . |
| 13 | To human beings the existence of exploitative relations of production would be agonizing were they perceived simply as exploitative . |
| 14 | Anyway , somehow we managed the financial crises and , having done so , every time electricity costs increased , the broader were our smiles . |
| 15 | So you were being generous were you ? |
| 16 | Coarse were they ? |
| 17 | And well-heeled were they , what with the oil revenues and all . |
| 18 | They wrote as though finding him funny were something radical and upright , of a kind with rallying goodwill toward coloured immigrants . |
| 19 | The incident would be funny were it not that a similar stunt had been pulled in Kismayu , southern Somalia 's largest port , at the end of March . |
| 20 | The Wakes were very popular were they ? |
| 21 | erm Some were what we would call nowadays newsreels . |
| 22 | Were there some were there some people asking you then ? |
| 23 | The nameless , the humble , the ignorant and the overlooked were his chosen material , to be recorded and given their true place , and if possible to be transformed by love . |
| 24 | How old were they ? ’ |
| 25 | How old were they ? |
| 26 | And we when how old were they when we went to Whitley for a holiday ? |
| 27 | How old were they in the family ? |
| 28 | How old were they when they did run away ? |
| 29 | How old were he then , about thirteen ? |
| 30 | How old were you when ‘ From Genesis To Revelation ’ came out ? |