Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 5 | Was she telling him about the plot to de-select Grunte ? |
| 6 | Was she carrying anything at the time ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | When you first saw Mr was he wearing anything upon the lower part of his body ? |
| 9 | But again the questions — was Boswell telling the truth about Johnson , or was he presenting him in the best possible light ? |