Example sentences of "[det] [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 | erm Some were what we would call nowadays newsreels . |
| 11 | Were there some were there some people asking you then ? |
| 12 | They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting . |
| 13 | This was its strongest bargaining position . |
| 14 | Birthright had funded its development in Britain , and this was its introduction at King 's College Hospital . |
| 15 | For one department this was its major role . |
| 16 | Added to this was its haughtiness and its refusal to become completely subservient to human demands , unlike the dog , the horse , the sheep and other easily controlled domestic animals . |
| 17 | This was its worst year for a decade both in terms of the growth of business volumes and of the level of bad debts that had to be absorbed on behalf of clients . |
| 18 | If it had a self , perhaps this was its face : split by wounds and doubt ; pitiful ; lost . |
| 19 | It is easy to represent Althusser 's intervention purely in terms of structuralism , but to suggest that this was its only significant intellectual context is misleading . |
| 20 | This was its justification : ‘ All who make war seek through war to arrive at a peace more perfect than existed before war . ’ |
| 21 | If it was claustrophobia this was its first appearance in her life . |
| 22 | And this was what Byers could not make . |
| 23 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 24 | This was what Michael Ramsey knew about . |
| 25 | How the fuck are you supposed to run for a bus in this was what I thought — a bit more down-to-earth than Malcolm and Vivienne . |
| 26 | Havard , who came to be nicknamed ‘ Humphrey ’ ( because this was what one member of the group thought was his name ) and sometimes the UQ or Useless Quack , came to be a much loved friend of them all . |
| 27 | But this was what the fans had come to hear , from the downy-cheeked chaps in jeans with their shirts hanging out , to the heavy metal chicks and rock'n'roll babes in their sleeveless leather jackets , chains and biker boots . |
| 28 | Pete Astor of The Weather Prophets defines his project as ‘ reactivating and redefining old musical forms ’ , claiming that this was what T. Rex was all about : ‘ revitalizing Chuck Berry and Howlin' Wolf , ’ reapplying these ancients in a pop context and embalming their legacy . |
| 29 | So this was what people meant by ‘ northern hospitality ’ ! |
| 30 | Maybe this was what happened to most people . |