Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were pushing it a bit today , Fran . |
| 2 | If we were paying them a salary then of course it 's up to us whether we have them at sitting at home doing nothing , they would n't they 'd soon get bored with it . |
| 3 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 4 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 5 | But , there are ways of checking , yo you can you can , obviously compare words and then perhaps you can er invariably time about the situations and draw your own conclusions as to whether they were telling you a lie earlier on . |
| 6 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
| 7 | Felicity , wise in her generation , was leaving herself a loophole whereby she could escape . |