Example sentences of "[was/were] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Were they on the same side of the path as the moor gate ? ’ 'Yes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 4 | What were they like the two the maids , were they young girls ? |
| 5 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 8 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 9 | Were they in the fifties , sixties or the seventies ? |