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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yeah well they were all right when we first come in but eventually |
| 5 | Visiting rights have the great advantage of being optional , not obligatory , so Christopher and Jane were only together because they wanted to be . |
| 6 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ At that time they were way ahead and I think we still have a thing or two to learn from them , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I did my shopping , had some lunch , and they were still here when we crossed over , going home . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | They were still there and I was sure that one of them would be going my way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He fell asleep , but the pains in his head were still there when he awoke in the morning . |
| 17 | They were nearer tonight than they had ever been . |
| 18 | They were nearly there and she turned to cross the road . |
| 19 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 20 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 21 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 22 | We were almost there and I wondered how he would behave when he was face-to-face with Gómez , what he would say . |
| 23 | Many said they were there simply because they would n't be able to pay . |
| 24 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 25 | I turned it on while you were there then and I did n't know who the hell it was ! |
| 26 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 27 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 28 | All their time was spent on the ones that were going to stay on , so ones that were going to leave at the end of the fourth year were never there and nobody sort of worried about them . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe to him Elise was dead even before she 'd died . |
| 30 | It was right there and you know and |