Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ How long were you at the High School ? ’ |
| 32 | " Where were you at the time ? " |
| 33 | ‘ Why were you at the gallery ? ’ |
| 34 | ‘ How long were you at the factory ? ’ she persisted . |
| 35 | ‘ Why were you at the Star and Garter , sir ? ’ |
| 36 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
| 37 | ‘ Were you in the War ? ’ asked Lee . |
| 38 | Were YOU in the SERVICES ? |
| 39 | " Were you in the fighting ? " |
| 40 | You might , were you in the celebrity business , react like literary agent Ed Victor : ‘ If I were the agent I would step on some jugulars to come home with $5 million for world-wide rights to the book and the film . ’ |
| 41 | And er wh where were you in the order of entry ? |
| 42 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 43 | Clare were you in the past |
| 44 | Clare were you in the past |
| 45 | Were you in the army ? |
| 46 | Well were you in the house on your own all night ? |
| 47 | They were telling me , a month ago , were you in the Christmas parade to be an old granny ? |
| 48 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 49 | Were you near the front ? |
| 50 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 51 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 52 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 53 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 54 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 55 | We doggedly persevered in our pursuit of consumer acceptance , so convinced were we of the superiority of our product , but , as always , ultimately the customer is king , and our product was rejected and has joined the ranks of many other good ideas whose time may come one day , but certainly is not with us now . |
| 56 | Were we on the right track at all ? |
| 57 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 58 | And the people that lived there there was were there for the season , but they would help with the harvest , so they go dyking and fencing and er r r and at the time of the shooting season they would be employed with poling man and dog man or something like that of long ago . |
| 59 | However , in southern Australia , there are some southern rain-forest species still with large diaspores , and fossil evidence suggests that the extinct cassowary relations , the Dromornithidae , were there in the Pleistocene . |
| 60 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |