Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | TOWA WAS BORN IN JAPAN , and though his parents were also born there , his grandparents were Korean and so is his passport . |
| 2 | The polls were wrong and so was I. Never before has every single poll strayed so far from reality . ’ |
| 3 | Well I told the committee and they were delighted and so was I . |
| 4 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 5 | The music-hall and vaudeville were transitional as really was all nineteenth-century popular culture . |
| 6 | The river again , the far bank was nearer but here was a black smooth stretch , he half knew that he was dreaming , he wanted to stop the dream and he wanted to get across , if only he could raise his mouth and nostrils above the swell of the water … |
| 7 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 8 | She was superstitious and so am I. ’ |
| 9 | As she went to the market with Ferdinando , each shopping for their respective households — though since hers had shrunk to nothing Wilson had no real need to make the daily pilgrimage — the excitement was unmistakable and so was its nature . |
| 10 | I was flabbergasted and so was my manager Billy Bonds . |
| 11 | On the Wednesday matinee , when the house was minimal and so was the cast 's concentration , Charles came rather unstuck with his deaf-aid . |
| 12 | The force of the casual blow was such that Yet was flung back against a bookcase . |
| 13 | And Emma 's mother got both lots of money because Seth was deceased and so was |
| 14 | I sat in my armchair ; the fire was cold and so was I , my head shrouded in damp hair . |
| 15 | Joseph , his father , was Jewish and so was his mother . |
| 16 | His voice was subdued and so was hers , ‘ Where are you going ? ’ |
| 17 | Yet their cultural position both for contemporaries and subsequent historians was complex and again is directly relevant to any understanding of the movies . |
| 18 | And Colin , Colin was gay as well was n't he ? |
| 19 | She is prone to pointing out to journalists that she has ugly hands ( her assessment ) , says she grew up thinking she was plain and now is so embarrassed by her appearance on screen that she never sees her films unless she 's forced to . |
| 20 | She had known that she was playing with fire , her own emotions had been awakened and she no longer trusted herself to be level-headed where Craig was concerned and yet was n't that half-fearful desire a challenge , a part of the fascination she felt for Craig Grenfell ? |
| 21 | She was busy and so was he . |
| 22 | As is invariably the case , the chorus 's singing was first-rate and so was the orchestral playing . |
| 23 | The room was small and so was she ; Mr Coleby was out of scale . |
| 24 | The morning was cool and so was Betty . |
| 25 | ‘ He was superb and still was n't fully fit . |
| 26 | His artlessness was boyish and so were his acuteness and his transparent but somewhat belated good sense . |
| 27 | Thus I learned that Chaplin was dead and so was Elvis ( I 'd thought the former long since gone but this intelligence of Presley startled me ) , that Iranians had held Americans hostage , administered show trials and televised humiliation ; that a geriatric cowboy had become President of the mightiest nation on earth all in all , show biz news . |