Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way , were you on 627 Squadron ? ’ |
| 2 | Did you have a pen were you of pensionable salary |
| 3 | ‘ Master Gates , ’ he said , again in a loud voice , ‘ were you by any chance on the river bank last night ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Were you by any chance in a hurry to get somewhere ? ’ he asked mildly . |
| 5 | He passed on his concern in a letter to Prince , who , as the ever-nervous and expectant recipient , was clearly in a state of anguish about it : ‘ I regret you should have determined upon embarking any portion of your Property in V.D.L. because from the ignorance of the parties whose names you mention , I fear least they should turn out Sharks and it would be a source of deep mortification to me were you by these means to lose any portion of the advantages you have obtained by years of anxiety and deep mental study . ’ |
| 6 | Were you in that meeting the last meeting before Christmas when we did the talking round the tables ? |
| 7 | Were you in any sort of A R P unit or anything like that during the war years ? |
| 8 | ‘ Were you against capital punishment in this country ? ’ |
| 9 | So desperate were we for hard news on our fellow hostages , and indeed for ourselves , that Brian and I found this very trying . |
| 10 | From other Regional Commissioners came stories of mattresses , bed linen and clothing having to be destroyed , so infested were they with evacuated lice . |
| 11 | ‘ Who were they at that stage ? ’ |
| 12 | Were they at different transfer rates ? |
| 13 | So addicted were they to this practice , which relieved their frugal existence by exporting their products to the more populous dales , that they earned a reputation as ‘ the terrible knitters of Dent ’ : terrible not because their handiwork was slipshod but because of their complete dedication to the craft . |
| 14 | ‘ Were they from that club ? ’ |
| 15 | Was the seventh century the date of origin of such estates , or were they in some way related to earlier land arrangements ? |
| 16 | eventually return to work , were they in any sense identifiable as a a group ? |
| 17 | Keswick ; ore which was his by ancient right . |
| 18 | The Roll of Kenilworth had indicated that there was no legitimate Deveril issue so was she of some bastard line ? |
| 19 | Was she with another bloke , eh ? ’ |
| 20 | Why was she on that plane ? |
| 21 | But was he under any duty to do more than he did merely because he knew that the money was intended ultimately to be lent by the father to the son ? |
| 22 | was he on that life support right till the end ? |
| 23 | What was he in civil life ? |
| 24 | So intent was he in this quest that he , and one presumes the rest of his campaign staff , failed to notice the apparent contradictions in his official campaign photograph . |
| 25 | My father , was he like some kind of hero ? ’ |
| 26 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 27 | And what was it about golden hair ? |
| 28 | What was it about this man ? |
| 29 | What was it about this man ? |
| 30 | Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily ? she thought hazily . |