Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's on that Were you there the other day when we got that sheet ? |
| 2 | Were they already the best of friends ? |
| 3 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
| 4 | But , presumably , he would do , he would work very hard were he not a royal person , would he not ? |
| 5 | Was I not the toughest kid in the whole street ? |
| 6 | And was she now an absolute stranger again ? |
| 7 | Was he just a local figure or , or local architect , or mm ? |
| 8 | Was he just a common cock-tease , I would wonder as I suggested a new word , broke an overlong line , or did he sometimes really desire a more intimate contact ? |
| 9 | Was he just a big fish in a very small pool ? |
| 10 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 11 | Was he not a prosperous builder ? |
| 12 | Was he really a famous opera star ? |
| 13 | Was it just a small wheeled |
| 14 | Has that been a recurring thing or was it er was it just a one off situation ? |
| 15 | Or was it just a juvenile student prank ? |
| 16 | Er was it just a high rate building society , or ? |
| 17 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 18 | you used to sing the weddings and that type of thing , or was it just the normal Sunday service ? |
| 19 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 20 | Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones |
| 21 | Was it not a drunken pedlar in a parson 's habit ? |
| 22 | Was it not a direct insult , an attempt to humiliate me ? |
| 23 | Was it not the third Wednesday ? |
| 24 | ‘ Was it not an instinctive reaction to break and see if you could help them , just in case you had to stop to do something about them ? ’ |
| 25 | The convention of the Handelian opera seria has corroded so that today we find it frigid entertainment , but was it ever a satisfactory dramatic form , with its succession of da capo arias , its wastelands of recitative , and its statuesque indifference to tension , beyond conspiracy and complication ? |
| 26 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 27 | And yet was it a fact , was it the truth , or was it merely a psychological speculation which in certain moods he found it interesting to contemplate ? |
| 28 | was it about a hundred thousand he sell that for ? |
| 29 | was a gift , was it perhaps an onerous gift like that in Johnsey Estates Ltd. v. Lewis & Manley and cases cited in the Note , above , p. 199 ? |
| 30 | Was it really an interesting |