Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The positive non-inflammatory bowel disease culture also grew acid fast bacilli which were not M paratuberculosis . |
| 2 | And many women who came who were not labour movement activists welcomed Women for Socialism initiative , considering the time somewhat overdue for labour movement women to reach out to other socialist-feminists . |
| 3 | You were even lip reading . |
| 4 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 5 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 6 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 7 | They were n't air crew , for God 's sake , they did n't join up to fly . |
| 8 | Well they were n't York stone then were they ? |
| 9 | They thought they were probably road maintenance men from the Cajamarca region . ’ |
| 10 | They were originally Wiltshire country people , the grandmother and mother being both illiterate , and the grandfather a blacksmith . |
| 11 | Well now I , Bull 's Eye Lamps , that we carried at night , they were merely paraffin oil lamps . |
| 12 | stew you know like it is a beef ah , but it were n't mince meat , but it were n't stew . |
| 13 | No Sat you used to work Fridays and I used to go out , no it were n't Saturday night |
| 14 | In Tuberville v Savage , the accused laid his hand on his sword and said : " If it were not assize time , I would not take such language . " |