Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hardly his own yet sprang from his heart as though , in those exalted moments , it were itself a living vessel of the Christmas mystery . |
| 2 | Were you a real rock pig on that tour ? |
| 3 | ‘ Were you a good parlourmaid , Sally-Anne ? ’ he enquired gently . |
| 4 | Were you a good girl ? |
| 5 | ‘ Were you a rowan last time ? |
| 6 | So how many years were you a French polisher then ? |
| 7 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 9 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 10 | Sea trials began in November 1924 and were everything the wind-tunnel experiments had promised . |
| 11 | Why were there no financial records for 1887 and 1888 ? |
| 12 | Not only were there no great causes left , as Look Back in Anger would have it . |
| 13 | Why were there no hot compresses on his limbs ? |
| 14 | Nor , obviously , were they a simple expression of Indian resistance to this assault . |
| 15 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 16 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 17 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 18 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 19 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 20 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 21 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 22 | 2 Within the system of government , the increased numbers of bureaucrats and officials involved in welfare and public-service provision were themselves a powerful lobby for more state activity . |
| 23 | This is a crucial stage of development from that in which — in the earlier stages substantially , in the later stages residually — artists were themselves a specific form of social organization . |
| 24 | In addition the closeness of the alliance and the sheer multiplicity of contacts were themselves a major cause of ill-feeling — as in a family . |
| 25 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 26 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 27 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 28 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 29 | ‘ Was I a naughty girl to ask for champagne ? ’ she enquired , certain in the knowledge that children 's misdemeanours are not usually regarded seriously . |
| 30 | ‘ Was I an awful pig ? ’ she murmured . |