Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My injuries were my first concern but , as the full extent of them became clear , golf came back into my mind , ’ said the 52-year-old professional . |
| 2 | Working with with the with the cow man , but I very soon got tired , I 'd be begging to be allowed back into the stable because the horses were my first love . |
| 3 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 4 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not your responsibility , just because you were my first lover . |
| 6 | if you were my next stranger . |
| 7 | Henley member , 83-year-old Alf Smith ( born in 1903 ) , and the late Herman Paddick were its last winners at Peppard in 1943 . |
| 8 | ‘ I imagine you were her first love ? ’ |
| 9 | For the ‘ highly-sexy ’ pictures were her first inkling that her lover Woody Allen was having an affair with the 21-year-old beauty . |
| 10 | when I did this there were no there were nobody next door |
| 11 | ‘ Where were you last Sunday night ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And where were you last night ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Where were you last night ? |
| 14 | ‘ So where were you last night ? ’ |
| 15 | Where the hell were you last night ? ’ |
| 16 | Decide why you did that rather than meeting A. Starter : A says , " Where were you last night ? " |
| 17 | ‘ Where were you last night ? ’ he asked . |
| 18 | He said where were you last night ? |
| 19 | On a were it last Sunday , yeah it were last Sunday when I took off , er Lisa always goes down to 'elp 'er , when , like what , you know when Eileen cut her finger , what did she do to her finger ? |
| 20 | Nor were his first words to her encouraging . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you seen her ? ’ were his first words . |
| 22 | Lochs Torridon and Maree were his next sketching locations . |
| 23 | He said the championships were his last event ; he was quitting swimming to concentrate on bodybuilding and his studies at Houghall Agricultural College , Durham , where he is training to be a shepherd . |
| 24 | ‘ The front of the shirt is not bad ’ — such were his last words on parting . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Those were his last words on this earth . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll soon find your way about and settle , ’ were his last words after she had protested yet again that she did n't want to stay . |
| 27 | What were your first contacts with the music of Sibelius ? |
| 28 | This Betty Ford Clinic is a famous place , but what were your first impressions of it ? |
| 29 | What were your first impressions of Walsall |
| 30 | Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people . |