Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not themselves in the dock . |
| 2 | Masha : ‘ Were n't they on a ski lift , rushing across pine trees ? ’ |
| 3 | And if they were horses , why were n't they in a barn or something ? |
| 4 | Were n't you at the village concert ? " |
| 5 | ‘ Why were n't you in the corridor with the door open , waiting ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | Marx provided the bones of an analysis of marriage as female domestic slavery , although he was personally something of a rearguard romantic ; Weber argued for sex-equality within marriage . |
| 7 | there was only one on a sort of opened pack and we could |
| 8 | I , I was only one at the time . |
| 9 | It was nevertheless something of a relief to find Fordham notably unmoved by such distant calls to glory . |
| 10 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 11 | But of course Mary Armour was already something of a veteran by then . |
| 12 | And then y when you came into the stockyard with a Caw , Caw , li like a a crow saying it was just something like a crow 's nest . |
| 13 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 14 | Was not it above the banality of revenge ? |
| 15 | To imagine that the revived realism of the 1950s and after excluded other possibilities , then , is to misunderstand its nature , and the chauvinism of the school was always something of a pose . |
| 16 | Even so , with water in normal supply , locking at Foxton takes an hour or more ; slow working was always something of a disadvantage . |
| 17 | In the wake of Watergate and other scandals , the pejorative connotations of the imperial presidency gained added weight , but the concept was always something of a cliché . |
| 18 | He was always something of a showman and sought to attract extra revenue by utilising the tramway as an attraction : to this end he introduced Illuminations tours , reintroduced the Circular Tour and created new feature cars , attracting commercial sponsorship . |
| 19 | There was always something around the corner if you did n't lose your head . |
| 20 | He thought it was easy for a newcomer to acquire school and institutional business because there was always someone on the lookout for improved service . |
| 21 | ‘ But in those days there was always someone in the house , and when were you ever content to sit with your feet on a footstool never moving a finger ? ’ |
| 22 | We have n't finished the process of elimination , but there was hardly anybody in the club in the afternoon except the residents and a few servants , and why the servants should try to blow up someone who was trying to improve their conditions is beyond me . ’ |
| 23 | The main enemy attack was still nothing but a sound of blended menace ; a crashing noise in the rye , a thump of drums and a deep-throated cheer . |
| 24 | And there was still something about the place 's atmosphere that she found unnerving . |
| 25 | Despite its new coat of paint it was still something of a relic , something of an enigma , resembling , in its apparently purposeless massiveness , some strange arrangement of stones on the site of a vanished civilization . |
| 26 | Her face was still something of the colour of a ripe apple , and her silvery hair shone with cleanliness as did the pink scalp beneath it . |
| 27 | There was school , and a lot of sport , and time spent in the mountains ; but music was clearly something of a priority . |
| 28 | His early arrival was clearly something of an inconvenience to his lordship and his colleagues who had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy for their preparations . |
| 29 | Pat McGibbon senior now reckons his wee lad was probably something of a visionary . |
| 30 | It was also something of a reassurance to conservative waverers frightened of political radicalism ; the Council was committed to evangelization of the Christian gospel . |