Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I replied that of course such decisions were entirely his prerogative , then I fell into a musing mood and sought to recall something Rosa had asked me the previous week about English social customs . |
| 2 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 3 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 4 | ‘ After-effects were not their business because the Government 's overall aim was a restricted one — control of birth rates ’ Joyce Pettigrew , anthropologist , India , 1984 |
| 5 | Clara did not mind the cold , for she liked anything that was not small and cramped and heartlessly cosy ; she liked the nameless multitudes that tramped mud on the cloakroom floors and left hairs in the cloakroom basins , and liked them because they were nameless , because they were not her mother and Alan and Arthur . |
| 6 | ‘ Beef cattle were not my scene ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Beef cattle were not my scene , so I decided to try something different , ’ says this 28-year-old one-game-a-month golfer . |
| 8 | ‘ I said you were not my brother 's child . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Most certainly you were not his friend . |
| 10 | Hardy took a keen interest in their production , although , with two exceptions , the plays themselves were not his work . |
| 11 | Using the argument that the Jews , not being a definite community , were not His Majesty 's subjects and therefore not under the protection of his laws , and quoting the Gospel of St John that the Jews were descended from the devil , Leese 's defence was partially successful . |
| 12 | He gave Caroline a cool look , as if the old woman 's admission were somehow her fault . |
| 13 | During the winter when the stock were indoors their involvement amounted to one to four hours per day . |
| 14 | They were already our side , |
| 15 | You were always my star student … |
| 16 | ‘ You were always my woman from the moment I saw you . ’ |
| 17 | So what would a a riveter have done then once they were once their job was completed they were put on the the on the street basically ? |
| 18 | Leggings and sweatshirts were more her style . |
| 19 | Bloomsbury and St Ives were more their style . |
| 20 | This produced a laugh which unfortunately brought on such a fit of coughing that Wilson was obliged to put Pilade down and attend to the invalid as though she were still her maid . |
| 21 | She 'd lost an awful lot of weight this last year , and these recurring dizzy spells were probably her body 's telling her to buck up , but they were slightly worrying all the same . |
| 22 | Back at Reckweilerhof in time for dinner , an old man was leaving the restaurant with a couple who were probably his son and daughter-in-law . |
| 23 | a couple of times , you know , people were up my arse a couple of times and I retaliated a couple of times |
| 24 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 25 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 26 | They were n't her sort of clothes , she kept telling herself . |
| 27 | She walked off and made out it were n't her car . |
| 28 | And if she was missing from home why were n't her family moving heaven and earth to get her back ? |
| 29 | They were n't our style . |
| 30 | I said it were n't , it were n't our patch . |