Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long were you at the High School ? ’ |
| 2 | What were you after a single bed or a double bed ? |
| 3 | Were we on the right track at all ? |
| 4 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |
| 5 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 6 | Were they in a like condition ? |
| 7 | And perhaps they would be now were they in a full democracy — one that embraced the interests and votes of all the citizens . |
| 8 | It was me against the known world . |
| 9 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 10 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 11 | Then it was You re a naughty child " sort of thing , and it all fell on to me . |
| 12 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 13 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |
| 14 | Where was he during the past year 's review of the telecoms industry ? |
| 15 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |
| 16 | was he in a good mood ? |
| 17 | Was he in a bad temper when he got up again ? |
| 18 | But so seized was he by the divine knowledge , so ‘ evangelistically ’ fixed with its potency , that his exploits on its behalf quickly created his legend . |
| 19 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 20 | So what was it about the wretched man that cut straight through her defences ? |
| 21 | Was the the degree of cooperation , was it was it on an informal basis or was it er through the Transport and General that you got together ? |
| 22 | Why was it on the wrong side of the road ? |
| 23 | And was it on the main road that the one who was killed |
| 24 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 25 | I said , well was it like a part-time thing ? |
| 26 | Well it was it like a big square shaved right down to the skin but no unless , it could of healed and just not grown back yet |
| 27 | Oh what was it like an old Dallas ? |
| 28 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 29 | Who was it in the red suit ? |
| 30 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |