Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Were you in the War ? ’ asked Lee . |
| 2 | Were YOU in the SERVICES ? |
| 3 | " Were you in the fighting ? " |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | And er wh where were you in the order of entry ? |
| 6 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 7 | Clare were you in the past |
| 8 | Clare were you in the past |
| 9 | Were you in the army ? |
| 10 | Well were you in the house on your own all night ? |
| 11 | They were telling me , a month ago , were you in the Christmas parade to be an old granny ? |
| 12 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 13 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 17 | Were they in the fifties , sixties or the seventies ? |
| 18 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 19 | Were they in the cellar ? |
| 20 | How old were they in the family ? |
| 21 | I almost blush with embarrassment , like it was me in the picture . |
| 22 | Was I in the toilet ? |
| 23 | Then he said , ‘ It was you in the passage last night , was n't it ? ’ |
| 24 | was you er , was you in the hockey team or any thing ? |
| 25 | Why was she in the MASH camp ? |
| 26 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |
| 27 | Nor was she in the gaming room with its low lights on green baize tables , circles of hands restless with chips , cards , cigarettes , while the tension adjusted itself with each soft call of the croupiers . |
| 28 | How long was she in the workhouse ? ’ |
| 29 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 30 | Cara had seen neither member of Frizingley 's force herself ; nor was she in the least surprised that two men armed only with truncheons should shirk from attempting to enforce their will upon St Jude 's . |