Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 2 | The critical hypotheses to be tested in our study were rather that there are no differences between groups than that there are differences . |
| 3 | And then it would get dark , and , since conditions were much as they were last night , there would be mist over the marshes — it was coming up a little on my walk . |
| 4 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |
| 5 | I 'm thinking I 'm sure you were Hannah because actually you were inside and they were outside , there 's like a door and the rest of the house between you ! |
| 6 | Angalo touched this panel thing and it just moved aside and then we were inside and there was an elevator thing and then we were in this great big room with a seat and Angalo sat down and all these lights came on and he started pressing buttons and moving things ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When I came out , all my friends were inside and my family did n't want me . |
| 8 | We sought to find out what these were so that we could consider the points raised and respond to them . |
| 9 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 10 | Yeah , we were , ah erm , we were together when we actually met , it was sort of on and off really . |
| 11 | It was lucky you were together when you found the bodies . |
| 12 | You were together when you moved in though were n't you ? cos I remember you moving in like thinking cor look at her with three kids , yeah . |
| 13 | They were together and they were in love . |
| 14 | Not until er when was it , ooh , I think not until er me brother and I were married and her and me father were together and she used to do a bit of homework er making these er kind of leather bags , |
| 15 | One day , when they were together and he had a good career , when he had his own house and a car and did n't need to walk and could afford taxis if he wanted them ; he 'd take that same route just for old times ' sake , try to recapture the uncertain ecstasies of that dark , early morning trek . |
| 16 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 17 | He took aim half-heartedly , but they were away before he even squeezed . |
| 18 | Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at . |
| 19 | You made me stay with you while they were away and you should n't have . |
| 20 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 21 | While the Chiefs were largely as one in their dislike of Sandys and his methods , there was little else that united them : each had to do his best to preserve the interests of his own Service in the turbulence that hit the Whitehall market-place in 1957 . |
| 22 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 23 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 24 | I hope she had n't done it that Saturday when we all were outside and we watching |
| 25 | André asked , once they were outside and he had started the car . |
| 26 | The wallpaper , the chair , the tiny desk , the narrow bed : all were exactly as they had always been . |
| 27 | The patterns of responses were exactly as he said they would be , provided that one begins treatment , whether acute or chronic , with the 0/1 potency . |
| 28 | The relics were exactly as I 'd left them , inside the hexagram , nothing had changed . |
| 29 | On May 31 President Ramiz Alia appealed in the People 's Assembly for patience : the strikers ' demands were just but they could not be met immediately , he said . |
| 30 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |