Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So did you get extra coupons if you were getting married or were you just expected to make do ? |
| 2 | Tell me something ; were you always prepared to sleep with me to get the jade , or was that a ploy to throw me off the scent when I was getting too close ? ’ |
| 3 | Erm in no way were we ever going to consider ourselves part of management . |
| 4 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 5 | Were we really expected to believe this ? |
| 6 | Were they really going to use us , and for this ? |
| 7 | Were they always prepared to support a long-term speculative research project ? ’ — he stated ‘ Apart from superconductivity I had a main project on insulating oxides where I felt I had solid ground under my feet , at least under one foot . |
| 8 | Towards the end of his association with Minton , Bowler realised : ‘ He did n't want to play this role , but there was nothing else left to play . ’ |
| 9 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 10 | Was I therefore wrong to hope ? |
| 11 | Was I therefore wrong to hope ? |
| 12 | Was I therefore wrong to hope ? |
| 13 | Was I really going to marry him , or was it all a dream ? |
| 14 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 15 | Or was she simply going to drive up to the front door and announce herself ? |
| 16 | Was she still trying to retrieve something ? |
| 17 | Was she really prepared to accept all this humiliation for the sake of however many weekends he spared her before he tired of her ? |
| 18 | Was she really going to clear everything out of here ? |
| 19 | Was she now trying to make Robert jealous in his turn ? |
| 20 | Was she actually planning to aid and abet him in this unexpected , meaningless sexual dalliance ? |
| 21 | How was she ever going to leave him ? |
| 22 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 23 | How was she ever going to face him again ? |
| 24 | So we 've er we felt that was we only had to cope with if the worst came to the worst . |
| 25 | What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes . |
| 26 | Why was he so determined to deny her the right to reach for her dream ? |
| 27 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 28 | I just mean after the way he had lived , how was he ever going to convince anybody he was a white man ? |
| 29 | Was he deliberately trying to make her feel even more humiliated ? |
| 30 | Was he really trying to get her drunk ? |