Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you a real rock pig on that tour ? |
| 2 | Were you a good girl ? |
| 3 | ‘ Were you a good parlourmaid , Sally-Anne ? ’ he enquired gently . |
| 4 | So how many years were you a French polisher then ? |
| 5 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 7 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 8 | Nor , obviously , were they a simple expression of Indian resistance to this assault . |
| 9 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 10 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 11 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 12 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 13 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 14 | ‘ Was I a naughty girl to ask for champagne ? ’ she enquired , certain in the knowledge that children 's misdemeanours are not usually regarded seriously . |
| 15 | ‘ Was I an awful pig ? ’ she murmured . |
| 16 | Not only was I an only child but my dad 's father was an orphan and my mum 's family had been happy to get out of Kensal Town — which was a little down the road . |
| 17 | Was I the best judge ? |
| 18 | Nor was I the innocent bystander taking his lunchtime beer in his local , to whom Shmekov slipped the information , two hours before the police grabbed him , that altered the Alliance 's whole strategy towards the opposing ’ powers in the Southern Apex . |
| 19 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 20 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 21 | When I where was I the other day ? |
| 22 | Was she a serious user ? |
| 23 | ‘ Was she a healthy person ? ’ he asked me . |
| 24 | And I said oh Miss wants to know was she a little bugger |
| 25 | I said or was she a little sweetie . |
| 26 | Was she a bad cook ? |
| 27 | ‘ Was she a suicidal type ? ’ he asked me then . |
| 28 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 29 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 30 | Erm h was she the same age as he was or y or younger or How old was your mother ? |