Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long were you at the High School ? ’ |
| 2 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
| 3 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 4 | Were we on the right track at all ? |
| 5 | ‘ Were they on the same side of the path as the moor gate ? ’ 'Yes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 8 | What were they like the two the maids , were they young girls ? |
| 9 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 10 | Basically the same poeple who wank on about Man Utd all the time being the biggest and best at everything — biggest Stadium ( aka sewer ) , biggest world support ( but where were they in the 1991–1992 season ? ) , best youth team ( I do n't think ) . |
| 11 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 12 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 13 | Were they in the fifties , sixties or the seventies ? |
| 14 | It was me against the known world . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Where was he during the past year 's review of the telecoms industry ? |
| 20 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So what was it about the wretched man that cut straight through her defences ? |
| 25 | Why was it on the wrong side of the road ? |
| 26 | And was it on the main road that the one who was killed |
| 27 | Was it after the First World War ? |
| 28 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 29 | Was it in the 1960s ? |
| 30 | Was it in the 1930s after he had left the Diaghilev company ? |