Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | How long did you actually leave the er how long were you away from the car for ? |
2 | Were you here on the day your Joy ? |
3 | ‘ Were you here in the war ? ’ |
4 | Were you ever at the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford ? ’ |
5 | ‘ Colonel Scotland , were you ever in the German army ? ’ |
6 | Were you backstage during the show ? ’ |
7 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
8 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
9 | Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ? |
10 | Those who teach and train children must constantly remind themselves that they were themselves once in the position of the children , and the children will in their turn , one day be in the position of the teachers . |
11 | She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper . |
12 | To be honest , at the time I really needed to be dropped but there was no-one else at the club ready to take over . |
13 | There was no-one else in the building at the time . |
14 | I could never understand why he did it as there was nothing else on the menu but egg and chips ! |
15 | There was nothing else on the body . |
16 | It was a passing glimpse , since there was nothing else from the chest down , his pull spinning the lightened torso around , almost weightless in the water . |
17 | ‘ There was nothing else in the diaries ? ’ |
18 | ‘ There was nothing else in the bag … a little money … a few other things of no importance . ’ |
19 | ‘ Presumably our visitor did n't have to pour this out to see there was nothing else in the bottle . |
20 | I said there was nothing else in the safe but behind the books there was a cardboard box — rectangular , like a shoe box , but longer . ’ |
21 | Then o on page five I found a quote that there was nothing particularly in the consultation document for merger referring to finance apart from the increase coming from the changes and that question er , the , I take your points er , in fact referring to the and provider unit . |
22 | There was nothing here for the average tourist , nothing for my friends Jim and Mary , who go off every year on a package tour . |
23 | There was nothing here except the field and the old disused pillbox Cawthorne had warned us about . |
24 | Even in the depths of her distress Meryl recognised with bitter irony that here was someone else with the facile professional kindness that doctors developed . |
25 | If you remember , Hawick said — and he 's not silly — that there was someone else on the scene when he first asked her out . |
26 | ‘ Maybe it was someone else in the car . ’ |
27 | Hector was lying back exhausted , the weak tears creeping shamefully from his ruined eyes , when he suddenly realised there was someone else in the room . |
28 | There was someone else in the graveyard , someone who slipped soundlessly behind the church as she watched . |
29 | If it 's the latter then there was plenty more at the show to warm any enthusiast 's heart . |
30 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |