Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning next to a time for my ‘ house call ’ we realised that , in golfing terms , we were only a drive and five iron apart . |
| 2 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 3 | One of the reason you get took on , I mean , it were only a borstal when he went were n't it ? |
| 4 | The words were less a request than an order . |
| 5 | They were largely the work or anonymous bureaucrats . |
| 6 | The books were exactly the mixture as before , but the quantity of ingredients seemed to have doubled ( ‘ Dickens and Scott seem to breed year by year Kingsley and Thackeray always appear ’ to quote from ‘ Irrelevant Thoughts Which Intrude in the Night , soliloquy written by Nan Munn , one of the 15 ‘ sorters ’ ) . |
| 7 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
| 8 | You were just a child and I knew there was nothing serious between you . ’ |
| 9 | There were just the mist and the empty roads , and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn . |
| 10 | There were just the whitehorn and brier of the hedges , the green ridge of the lane inside the wheel tracks , the wild strawberries starting to darken on the banks . |
| 11 | You were hardly the innocent when you were in the back close with me . |
| 12 | — you were always a gentleman while you were at Kirkcaldy and that 's how I 'll always think of you , regardless of where you are in the future . |
| 13 | THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office . |
| 14 | Tonight , two acres of land that were once an orchard but have now been transformed into a series of separate cottage gardens . |
| 15 | If it were still the case that affray required that the incident should take place in public , the case would be cast-iron . |
| 16 | This is a small sample : the average age of all brides in Scotland in 1908 was 26.8 years , " and perhaps our compositors were nearer the average than the precise records can show . |
| 17 | Australian Rugby League games were also a success when they were screened live on Mondays . |
| 18 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 19 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
| 20 | Section C operations , though secret , were mainly the bread and butter of spy work — patient surveillance . |
| 21 | On the other hand , there were virtually no engine or propeller effects requiring rudder or elevator movements during the climb . |
| 22 | It came in very useful because they were quite a while before the gas was connected . |
| 23 | In a perfect world the course should have lasted not one year but three — but there were neither the time or resources ; nor can one train trainers as well as one would like in a field where there are as yet no models to emulate and no specific literature . |
| 24 | She knew he was speaking to her as if she were either an idiot or a child but the momentary fight had quite gone and she just nodded , looking up at him . |
| 25 | Looked at positively , we might say that all these things were actually a realisation that the stresses and strains of modernity could not be coped with by further doses of materialism . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 27 | Horses were his speciality , and although he was rather a stout and shortish man-he sported a moustache - he was quite strong . |
| 28 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 29 | Honey was sweet and gentle from the day she was born , so it was rather a surprise when she came home from the horse breaker with a completely changed personality . |
| 30 | The natural philosophy of the ancient Greeks ‘ was rather a dream than science ’ . |