Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Were you also a runaway ? ’ she asked excitedly . |
2 | ‘ Were you ever a Tiller girl with the new Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd ? |
3 | ‘ Were you ever a dancer ? ’ |
4 | Were you ever a party political person ? |
5 | ‘ Were you really a marine ? ’ |
6 | were you never a Girl Guide ? |
7 | ‘ Were we now the target ? |
8 | Were my beliefs my own or were they merely the product of my culture , my country , my education or a legacy from my parents ? |
9 | If we talked of society in these terms , Marx argued , we could never appreciate that the phenomena to which the terms referred were themselves only the product of a more fundamental social process . |
10 | There was nothing else the Captain could say . |
11 | You did your own act , and it was yours all the way . |
12 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
13 | But it comprised , rather , a history of the West in which fascism was itself merely a symptom , and included not only the history of European imperialism but also the defeats of the European colonial powers by Japan in World War II , the subsequent French ( and American ) defeat in South-East Asia , the war in Algeria , as well as the many other colonial wars of national liberation . |
14 | Was she really a college professor ? ’ |
15 | The only confusion was deliberately manufactured — was she now a Lady of a Vamp . |
16 | yes , interesting you should say that , because the definition I had was something quite the reverse . |
17 | In fact , ’ said Ewen , and was there just a shade of genuine relief in his tone ? ‘ you do n't know anything at all . |
18 | But amongst the fakes , obsessives and lunatics , was there perhaps a man who instinctively knew the route to the Imajica ? |
19 | ‘ Was there ever a chance of the shipyards re-opening ? ’ |
20 | Was there ever a novel without its hero ? |
21 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
22 | Was there ever a custom mentioned to you whereby they used to put a cairn down ? |
23 | Was there ever a moment when you f when you were striking the bargain if one could call it that , |
24 | So without really putting it more bluntly er , was there always the option to call this off ? |
25 | Was there really no vice-chancellor prepared to put another view ? |
26 | Was there really a ladder by the wall ? |
27 | Was there quite a queue , did you walk in or park in ? |
28 | Nor was he just a patron of troubadours . |
29 | ‘ The other bearer , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ the first one , the one who was but a servant , was he also a Copt ? ’ |
30 | ‘ Was he already a prophet then ? ’ |