Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 2 | They were right back where they had started . |
| 3 | Just when you started to think you had finally got a grip on this thing they would throw in the Bombay Khojas and you were right back where you started . |
| 4 | She stared down at her plate , wishing she knew what to answer , wishing she were somewhere else but they never let her out of their sight . |
| 5 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
| 6 | He went on to repeat the Prime Minister 's bland assurance that , far from experiencing poverty , most students were better off than they had ever been before . |
| 7 | Some of our relatives were better off than us : they had cars , praised Churchill and voted Conservative , to my father 's disgust . |
| 8 | You were better off when you were talking ! |
| 9 | And then the old keeper used to come round and see that we were all right and they 'd be there till the following day and carry on for about three or four weeks you see . |
| 10 | Yeah well they were all right when we first come in but eventually |
| 11 | Visiting rights have the great advantage of being optional , not obligatory , so Christopher and Jane were only together because they wanted to be . |
| 12 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 13 | They were already out when we got home |
| 14 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 15 | Of course the boss 'd bosses were always there and he was a a right a right fellow you know , he was he he got blacklisted at , they could n't stand him . |
| 16 | ‘ At that time they were way ahead and I think we still have a thing or two to learn from them , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Now expectations model implies that the revision in expectations , right , year on year alright , is proportional right , to the error last year , right , the difference between actual and forecasted last year right , if they were way out if their forecast was way out for last year , right , they 'll revise their expectations for , for the next year okay . |
| 18 | I did my shopping , had some lunch , and they were still here when we crossed over , going home . |
| 19 | ‘ I looked everywhere and could n't find anyone and we saw the trucks come here and I saw the lights on and I thought the humans were still here and I came in and I heard your voices and you 've got to come because it 's Dorcas ! ’ |
| 20 | They were still there and I was sure that one of them would be going my way . |
| 21 | But no ball of fire climbed into the sky ahead of him and the familiar landmarks were still there as he passed the City of London Museum and slipped past St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate into Little Britain . |
| 22 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 23 | But the women were still there when she looked again ; twenty or thirty of them , in various states of undress — although none , she was relieved to notice once she could take things in , was actually naked . |
| 24 | He fell asleep , but the pains in his head were still there when he awoke in the morning . |
| 25 | The blinds were still down and there was a closed notice on the door , but there was no longer a uniformed man outside . |
| 26 | They were nearer tonight than they had ever been . |
| 27 | Our breaking-in weeks were nearly over and we waited for news of posting to Initial Training Wing . |
| 28 | They were nearly there and she turned to cross the road . |
| 29 | ‘ We were really down when it happened , and had agreed to knock the band on the head . |
| 30 | Many of the candles and storm lanterns that had been lit when Maggie left the house were now out so it was a dark journey home , the pair of them stumbling more than once . |