Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must have been because it-was his now , he owned it . |
| 2 | ‘ Hey , lady , ’ said one rummy , Walter Brennan , ‘ wuz you ever stung by a dead bee ? ’ |
| 3 | Without thinking , as though there were nothing else she could do , she slipped her hand in under her thick shirt . |
| 4 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 5 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you were someone else , ’ explained Endill as he climbed down to the ground . |
| 7 | Then she thought , hard and suddenly as if it were someone else 's thought , I 'm in love with someone who 's not Anne . |
| 8 | Do you ever wish you were someone else ? |
| 9 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 10 | She wished there were someone here to support her and her soul cried out in longing : Friend ! |
| 11 | She wished suddenly that she were someone totally different , that she were much smaller and had a small face and tiny feet like Nan had . |
| 12 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 13 | Constance thought Ludovico the most romantic man she had ever seen but what intrigued her most were his luxuriantly long eye-lashes . |
| 14 | Two Commonwealth tours of India and Pakistan in 1949–50 and 1950–51 were his only further forays of significance into international company . |
| 15 | ‘ Here there is a variation in background belief and ‘ subjective feeling ‘ perhaps , but which allows for either judgement being preferred , even were I totally unaware of what an Archbishop was . |
| 16 | It also seemed to inspire a sort of motherly affection in others , so that I was more likely to get away with carelessness or naughtiness than were my more physically mature contemporaries . |
| 17 | We 've often met people like that who blow their trumpet er pretending they were somebody else |
| 18 | There were plenty more where they came from . |
| 19 | There were plenty more to fill your tank to the one inch to two gallons stocking ratio recommended . |
| 20 | There were plenty more to be had cheaper ! |
| 21 | Here , R. H. Tawney took a traditional line , asserting that Tutorial Classes and , at the very least , One-Year courses constituted the WEA 's real work , that those who had left school at or about fifteen were its most important target and that as a movement it should be largely under the control of its voluntary student members . |
| 22 | No longer were its hard sell tactics acceptable . |
| 23 | A small , terrified child clutching a satchel with both arms as though it were her most prized possession . |
| 24 | Each scrap of news any one of them had about themselves or their immediate family — child , husband , dog , cat , Bendix dishwasher , a new dress or pair of shoes , the price of every article they bought — was as fascinating to each other as if it were their very own ; and any little thing out of Great Meadow was pure binding . |
| 25 | Percifull died in nine days in November 1733 and Dr John Martyn 's twins , John and Eulalia , died within a year of their baptism in 1737 , there appear to have been no such tragedies in the Miller family and we may suppose these were their only three children . |
| 26 | it 's only last night , I did n't know if you could hear , it come on three times and they were nobody there ! |
| 27 | No they were out all day Tuesday , I do n't know where they were , I rang right from phoning our June when I got that letter twenty five past ten and so ten to four were ringing on and off and there were nobody so I do n't know where they were . |
| 28 | Would he range the world looking for sheep to care for if there were none here ? |
| 29 | Should children be told about so-called sexual deviations , or will that put ideas into heads where there were none before ? |
| 30 | By and large , planners were associated with incomers in that they wished to control the way things were done , viz to impose rules where there were none before and to replace the old social norms by fiat instead of the usual agreement between households . |