Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long did you actually leave the er how long were you away from the car for ? |
| 2 | Were you here on the day your Joy ? |
| 3 | ‘ Were you here in the war ? ’ |
| 4 | Were you backstage during the show ? ’ |
| 5 | Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ? |
| 6 | ‘ Was he really in the Merchant Navy ? ’ |
| 7 | erm Anyway , it 's just about there , and then , almost next door , presumably in competition with each other is the other inn , the Unicorn Inn , erm so that was it just on the South Side of Blue Boar Lane . |
| 8 | Was it just in the summer he came around ? |
| 9 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 10 | Was it generally in the middle or at one end or |
| 11 | Did you intend them as a short-term loan , retrievable when your contract with Sarella was over , or was it more in the line of outright theft ? |
| 12 | Or was it only with a view to inspiring a love of virtue that he read ‘ Abou Ben Adhem ’ and how he ‘ loved his fellow men . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Was it much of a gash ? ’ |