Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hey , lady , ’ said one rummy , Walter Brennan , ‘ wuz you ever stung by a dead bee ? ’ |
| 2 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 3 | She wished there were someone here to support her and her soul cried out in longing : Friend ! |
| 4 | There were plenty more to fill your tank to the one inch to two gallons stocking ratio recommended . |
| 5 | No longer were its hard sell tactics acceptable . |
| 6 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 7 | The group of gentlemen who prepared the list and signed the covering letter to Panmure , however , emphasised that unless Panmure wrote the letters in favour of James Milne which they had requested , then their friend would withdraw ‘ & let your declared oposers run away with what they could not , were you either present or your intrest heartily interposed ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Were you also sent running to the hills by a woman ? |
| 9 | Were you badly affect in the , by winters ? |
| 10 | Was it really your decision or were you heavily influence by others ? |
| 11 | Sir , you wanted to say something , or were you just scratching your head ? |
| 12 | Did you w did you specialize more than most folk or were you just average ? |
| 13 | Alex were you just waiting there ? |
| 14 | Good did you know that or were you just guessing ? |
| 15 | So did you get extra coupons if you were getting married or were you just expected to make do ? |
| 16 | What were you just gon na say now ? |
| 17 | Then , as she nodded in agreement , he added viciously , ‘ Were you already planning , even as that photograph was being taken , how you were going to fleece him of every penny he possessed ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Were you harshly treated ? ’ |
| 19 | Were you only collected ? |
| 20 | At that time were you only showing abstract works ? |
| 21 | During your schooldays , were you ever given any encouragement to look at photography as a possible way of earning your living ? |
| 22 | ‘ Were you ever stopped by the police ? ’ |
| 23 | The marines ' sexist and racist mutual abuse is part of their camaraderie , with the women getting the best lines : ‘ Were you ever mistaken for a man ? ’ asks one hapless male of Private Vasquez ( Jenette Goldstein ) , setting himself up for ‘ No ; were you ? ’ |
| 24 | Since when were you ever bothered about my feelings ? |
| 25 | What , what 's , what were you actually doing in the navy ? |
| 26 | And when were you actually stationed on Skerrymor ? |
| 27 | Er what were you originally employed as by the |
| 28 | Again marketing budget at two , six , seven , the point made there again , numbered item one in the bottom third no national advertising and then two sixty eight , this is a meeting of the twenty fifth of February nineteen eighty eight , present including Mr and yourself today I send that 's Mr pointed out that so far our reaction to the recent media criticism had been totally defensive in future these actions to be defended , but then attacked in order to regain our credibility were you indeed present at that meeting of the twenty fifth of erm February ? |
| 29 | How how old were you then Miss ? |
| 30 | ‘ Were you perhaps hoping that I might fail to keep our appointment ? ’ |