Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones . |
| 2 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 4 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 5 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 6 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 7 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 8 | ‘ Were you on the Crusade ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Were you on the ice ? ’ |
| 10 | Why were you on the Moor alone ? |
| 11 | ‘ How long were you at the factory ? ’ she persisted . |
| 12 | ‘ Why were you at the gallery ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why were you at the Star and Garter , sir ? ’ |
| 14 | " Where were you at the time ? " |
| 15 | Clare were you in the past |
| 16 | Clare were you in the past |
| 17 | Were you in the army ? |
| 18 | And er wh where were you in the order of entry ? |
| 19 | You might , were you in the celebrity business , react like literary agent Ed Victor : ‘ If I were the agent I would step on some jugulars to come home with $5 million for world-wide rights to the book and the film . ’ |
| 20 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 21 | They were telling me , a month ago , were you in the Christmas parade to be an old granny ? |
| 22 | Well were you in the house on your own all night ? |
| 23 | ‘ Were you in the War ? ’ asked Lee . |
| 24 | " Were you in the fighting ? " |
| 25 | Were you near the front ? |
| 26 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 27 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 28 | We doggedly persevered in our pursuit of consumer acceptance , so convinced were we of the superiority of our product , but , as always , ultimately the customer is king , and our product was rejected and has joined the ranks of many other good ideas whose time may come one day , but certainly is not with us now . |
| 29 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 30 | And the people that lived there there was were there for the season , but they would help with the harvest , so they go dyking and fencing and er r r and at the time of the shooting season they would be employed with poling man and dog man or something like that of long ago . |