Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 2 | Yet I am so much under the spell of your witchery I might have viewed parson 's mousetrap with a kindly eye were you the bait — and not the false promises with which I am to be lured . |
| 3 | Where were you the day they found Pamella Bordes ? |
| 4 | ‘ Where were you the night Riddle disappeared — Friday night ? ’ |
| 5 | Mr were you actually were you the cover man ? |
| 6 | Now who was the state 's interests with other states , was it were you the state 's interests in other states or no , I keep getting you wrong . |
| 7 | Yeah , but were you the sort of people that walk into hospitals and start praying for the sick to be healed . |
| 8 | Native peoples were not simply savages unable to pit their wits against a superior enemy , nor were they the Russians ' dupes . |
| 9 | Erm were they the master and mistress of the house , in the house all year ? |
| 10 | Were they the ones that really bad ? |
| 11 | Were they the ones you can put in a jar ? |
| 12 | Were they the woman in the photograph ? |
| 13 | What were you took to him Joyce were it the video or television ? |
| 14 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 15 | that was you the night the doctor came round he , he nearly threw up |
| 16 | Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ? |
| 17 | He was a tawny lion poised for the kill — and was she the prey ? |
| 18 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 19 | ‘ You mean , was she the sort of girl that other girls could be friends with ? |
| 20 | Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ? |
| 21 | Was she the woman we met on the road last night ? ’ |
| 22 | Was he the assassin ? |
| 23 | Was he the drinking kind ? |
| 24 | Was he the man from the PR agency ? |
| 25 | Was he the man who had held her ? |
| 26 | Who was that other fella , was he the deputy someone or something ? |
| 27 | Was he the type of the world into which they had so unthinkingly plunged ? |
| 28 | was he the policeman ? |
| 29 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 30 | The Holy Spirit was not to be confined to the narrow straits of Jewish respectability , nor was he the perquisite of the Church leadership . |