Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle were one-nil up and rising when Blackburn posed their first threat of the afternoon , in the 41st minute . |
| 2 | Without thinking , as though there were nothing else she could do , she slipped her hand in under her thick shirt . |
| 3 | Weeping females were nothing out of the ordinary for him . |
| 4 | Hanging leaders were nothing out of the ordinary , and the Old Thunderer even confessed itself vexed by the ‘ overmagnanimous spirit of British law , which always presumes a man innocent until he is proven guilty ’ . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you were someone else , ’ explained Endill as he climbed down to the ground . |
| 8 | Then she thought , hard and suddenly as if it were someone else 's thought , I 'm in love with someone who 's not Anne . |
| 9 | Do you ever wish you were someone else ? |
| 10 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 11 | She wished there were someone here to support her and her soul cried out in longing : Friend ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 14 | We 've often met people like that who blow their trumpet er pretending they were somebody else |
| 15 | There were plenty more where they came from . |
| 16 | There were plenty more to fill your tank to the one inch to two gallons stocking ratio recommended . |
| 17 | There were plenty more to be had cheaper ! |
| 18 | it 's only last night , I did n't know if you could hear , it come on three times and they were nobody there ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I got down there and there were nobody in ! |
| 21 | Would he range the world looking for sheep to care for if there were none here ? |
| 22 | Should children be told about so-called sexual deviations , or will that put ideas into heads where there were none before ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Obviously this is not relevant if you have a tiny galley kitchen , or a slit of corridor space , but if you can add a chair or two , or at least a couple of stools where there were none before ; and some sort of bar , or at least an enlarged counter top if you ca n't fit in a decent table , then you are well on the way to making your kitchen a more welcoming place . |
| 25 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 26 | Many more established figures were none too sure about it , probably because the exercises might involve the exposure of one 's private parts , the display of secret and personal habits and the use of expletive expressions in the passionate search for one 's inner self . |
| 27 | His spiritual advisers were none too happy with his reliance on pagan practices , nor probably was his court favourite Buckingham . |
| 28 | The rushes on the floor were none too clean : hungry wolf-hounds foraged amongst them for bits of food and Corbett heard the squeak and scamper of rats . |
| 29 | The omens for the future , she suggested , were none too good . |
| 30 | Significantly , though Hegel himself was much interested in science , especially in astronomy , his own efforts in that direction were none too successful : physical reality tended to be uncomfortably unwilling to accommodate itself to his theoretical predictions . |