Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 2 | Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight . |
| 3 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 4 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 5 | There was nothing to protect it save a company of disreputable rabble and a small strange looking nine-barrelled cannon . |
| 6 | There was nothing to tie him to the place now . |
| 7 | I told my dad that was I chucked his in the bin and it had sort of stains on it and I told him that was |
| 8 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 9 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 10 | ‘ There was nobody to touch him on the pitch , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Was she telling him about the plot to de-select Grunte ? |
| 12 | Was she carrying anything at the time ? |
| 13 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |
| 14 | When you first saw Mr was he wearing anything upon the lower part of his body ? |
| 15 | But again the questions — was Boswell telling the truth about Johnson , or was he presenting him in the best possible light ? |
| 16 | J. V. Night duty was what got me off the job . |
| 17 | I was n't in the best of shape to receive bad news and that was what awaited me in the byre . |