Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 2 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 3 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 4 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 5 | ‘ Were you in the War ? ’ asked Lee . |
| 6 | Were YOU in the SERVICES ? |
| 7 | " Were you in the fighting ? " |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | And er wh where were you in the order of entry ? |
| 10 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 11 | Clare were you in the past |
| 12 | Clare were you in the past |
| 13 | Were you in the army ? |
| 14 | Well were you in the house on your own all night ? |
| 15 | They were telling me , a month ago , were you in the Christmas parade to be an old granny ? |
| 16 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 17 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 23 | Were they in the interests of freedom to follow tradition and protect and facilitate a march , albeit odious in its characteristics , or were they to seek a ban under the Public Order Act 1936 ? |
| 24 | Basically the same poeple who wank on about Man Utd all the time being the biggest and best at everything — biggest Stadium ( aka sewer ) , biggest world support ( but where were they in the 1991–1992 season ? ) , best youth team ( I do n't think ) . |
| 25 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 26 | Were they in the fifties , sixties or the seventies ? |
| 27 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 28 | Were they in the cellar ? |
| 29 | How old were they in the family ? |
| 30 | Seventeen fathers were themselves in the printing trade — mostly compositors , with a sprinkling of bookbinders and machinemen — again all skilled . |