Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What kind of questions were these to ask her ? |
| 2 | Thinks what were these do you know ? |
| 3 | The heat , the fumes from the diesel engine , the physical and mental exhaustion were all dragging me down fast . |
| 4 | No doubt we were all thinking he was crazy , or that if we stopped we 'd be late for work . |
| 5 | ‘ Although the fine is severe , we were all hoping he 'd be kicked out of the club by the League . |
| 6 | We were all like them once . |
| 7 | No wonder they were all watching me . |
| 8 | on the telly the other night and they were showing this fellow scragging the kids in the kitchen , god and I thought oh , because they were all watching it , you know , oh they might ring them |
| 9 | Yet , if they were all to own them , some mechanism would have to emerge to inhibit their natural sexual rivalry . |
| 10 | And we were all enjoying it and looking forward to going to see this big ships and whatnot . |
| 11 | That is being taken to good money they say , it was the professional 's choice yesterday the faces were all backing it yesterday . |
| 12 | They were all sold I du n no . |
| 13 | After the attacks they were all told they had won their driving licences . |
| 14 | well that was , you know I mean they were all waiting they had all got their arm bands on and it was do we take them in or not ? |
| 15 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 16 | in the studies described earlier , those who were most proficient in BSL were those learning it as a first language ( albeit with English as another first language ) . |
| 17 | You would go to more it there were more do you think ? |
| 18 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 19 | In fact , she did n't just feel like groaning — the frustration and worry she felt at the moment were enough to make her want to scream blue murder ! |
| 20 | The words were enough to make him explode with anger , and , turning swiftly to grip her shoulders , he shook her with force , glaring down into her face . |
| 21 | They were both watching him . |
| 22 | I do n't recall which of us spoke it first , but as the end approached we were both mouthing it imploringly , like a prayer , like a spell . |
| 23 | They were both hugging me and I was crying the kind of tears which seem to come from a part of you which you never knew you had . |
| 24 | Apart from their fair hair and strong features , there was little to label them as twins , she thought , wondering which was her father , and which her uncle . |
| 25 | There was little , if any , evidence to substantiate the gossip and , by the same token , there was little to disprove it . |
| 26 | For there was little to differentiate them in the policies which they espoused during the campaign . |
| 27 | What was that to move her about ? |
| 28 | Was that had we and I know we mentioned it when we met last time , but was that really we 're including in E O work with the unemployed . |
| 29 | I think she was that doing it . |
| 30 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |