Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 2 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 3 | Were ye in a fight ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 6 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 7 | And were you in a union of any sort ? |
| 8 | So this job you had with the diplomat 's family , did you get it from the , the home or were you in a ? |
| 9 | ‘ Were you in the War ? ’ asked Lee . |
| 10 | Were YOU in the SERVICES ? |
| 11 | " Were you in the fighting ? " |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | And er wh where were you in the order of entry ? |
| 14 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 15 | Clare were you in the past |
| 16 | Clare were you in the past |
| 17 | Were you in the army ? |
| 18 | Well were you in the house on your own all night ? |
| 19 | They were telling me , a month ago , were you in the Christmas parade to be an old granny ? |
| 20 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 21 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And perhaps they would be now were they in a full democracy — one that embraced the interests and votes of all the citizens . |
| 27 | Were they in a like condition ? |
| 28 | Were they er l loose or were they in a packet ? |
| 29 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |