Example sentences of "were [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you a real rock pig on that tour ? |
| 2 | Were you a good girl ? |
| 3 | ‘ Were you a good parlourmaid , Sally-Anne ? ’ he enquired gently . |
| 4 | So how many years were you a French polisher then ? |
| 5 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 7 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 8 | Nor , obviously , were they a simple expression of Indian resistance to this assault . |
| 9 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 10 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 11 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 12 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 13 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |