Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Were you down the prom then , yesterday ? |
| 2 | Why were you out the lesson ? |
| 3 | It 's on that Were you there the other day when we got that sheet ? |
| 4 | ‘ Were we now the target ? |
| 5 | Were n't there , were n't there another boys and girls one or whatever , or were there just the boys |
| 6 | Were they not the ones who had the fancy dress party the Victorian dress party at the hotel ? |
| 7 | Were they already the best of friends ? |
| 8 | Were my beliefs my own or were they merely the product of my culture , my country , my education or a legacy from my parents ? |
| 9 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 10 | If we talked of society in these terms , Marx argued , we could never appreciate that the phenomena to which the terms referred were themselves only the product of a more fundamental social process . |
| 11 | There was nothing else the Captain could say . |
| 12 | This time , Colegate told Branson that there was nothing more the CAA could do , and that Branson was ‘ on his own ’ from then on . |
| 13 | Was I not the toughest kid in the whole street ? |
| 14 | You did your own act , and it was yours all the way . |
| 15 | What he was looking at was something approximately the same size . |
| 16 | I thought stealing routes was something only the French did ! |
| 17 | yes , interesting you should say that , because the definition I had was something quite the reverse . |
| 18 | Was there not the assurance that God had demonstrated a concern for humanity , irrespective of spatial coordinates ? |
| 19 | Was there just the kids down ? |
| 20 | Was there even the slightest echo of the love they had known ? |
| 21 | Was there still the erm the , the thing you talked about with the guaranteed work at that time ? |
| 22 | So without really putting it more bluntly er , was there always the option to call this off ? |
| 23 | Did Elvis have good ideas about what he wanted to do , or was he basically the guy singing ? |
| 24 | ‘ Was he really the innovator they make out ? |
| 25 | So did this fella keep visitors right up through the year or was it just the Summer |
| 26 | Erm can I just clarify that the thirty million of erm savings , was that actual redundancy costs which took place in ninety two or was that redundancy costs plus the sav commensurate savings which will then benefit ninety three er or was it just the savings ? |
| 27 | Mm was this quite often during the year , or was it just the once ? |
| 28 | you used to sing the weddings and that type of thing , or was it just the normal Sunday service ? |
| 29 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 30 | Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones |