Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where were you all the time he wanted you ? |
| 2 | Or were you near the House ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Were you aware the Senior Medical Officer had chosen to send us Mr Peters , temporarily ? ’ |
| 4 | It was you all the time . |
| 5 | So it was you all the time . |
| 6 | Was she such a coward ? |
| 7 | Was she still the ‘ Darling , darling ? ’ |
| 8 | Never was there such a public beating of breasts . |
| 9 | Was there such a state as logical positivism ? |
| 10 | Was there such a thing as a tomato-less Neapolitan pizza ? |
| 11 | Was there such a thing as love ? |
| 12 | So why was he trouble-shooting a non-psychic threat ? |
| 13 | And was he even the same guy as the one with markedly dodgy views about the international situation in the Far East ? |
| 14 | Was he just the slightest bit jealous ? |
| 15 | Was he alright the other day when you come round with the Lada and then he |
| 16 | If this is what was meant by adaptability , why was it such a popular idea among those who discussed industrial training within the framework of compulsory part-time day continuation schools ? |
| 17 | Or was it such a mystery ? |
| 18 | Was it such an extraordinary thought ? |
| 19 | Why on earth was it such an enormous effort to force a bland expression , and shrug and nod ? |
| 20 | Was it all a heroic failure ? |
| 21 | Or was it all a pack of lies to make me give in ? |
| 22 | Was it all a stage-managed event by the party leadership in order to distract their own people and foreign observers from the real issues facing China ? |
| 23 | Was I really going to marry him , or was it all a dream ? |
| 24 | Was it possible the old fox had sussed him out and not let it show ? |
| 25 | Was it possible the police version ( which Cobalt had heard and Maurin had repeated ) was correct and the killing was a random attack by a thief on a passer-by ? |
| 26 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 27 | Why do you think your relationship with Richard Burton was so fiery — was it temperament or was it just the booze ? |
| 28 | Nor was it just the humble and obscure whose exits went unnoticed . |
| 29 | Nor was it just the invigorating properties of the sea air at Blackpool that stimulated the appetite for whipping . |
| 30 | It seems , moreover , that from the 1830s and 1840s there was a distinct switch in literary representation of the type of women who had recourse to abortion : no longer was it just the seduced domestic , but the married and unmarried working women , particularly factory women in the textile areas of Lancashire . |