Example sentences of "and [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated . |
| 2 | They belong to the countryside and were they to be evicted the countryside itself would cease to exist . |
| 3 | He would be at the next meeting in the church hall along with Swire Sugden , and were they in for a surprise ! |
| 4 | What is certain is that , did it exist and were it to be opened by some ‘ cleansing regime ’ , the happy openness of British life would go for good . |
| 5 | Fortunately the process is explicitly parallel and were it to be run on multiprocessor hardware then there could be substantial speed-up . |
| 6 | And were you in a union of any sort ? |
| 7 | He lived a very isolated existence and was something of a recluse . |
| 8 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 9 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 10 | First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own . |
| 11 | Here he became a dead being and was one with Osiris , ruler of the Underworld , and contended with the region 's dangers and its demon-serpents . |
| 12 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
| 13 | He came from a long-lived line and was himself in rude health . |
| 14 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 15 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 16 | Did this mean therefore that in some way France had forfeited her position in Indochina and was she to be treated as an opponent rather than an ally ? |
| 17 | And was she in love with him ? |
| 18 | That 's right , and was she in th the army ? |
| 19 | And was he to be as abjectly grateful for proffers even from young Eric in the north lands ? |
| 20 | ‘ And was it along the trail that someone shot at you ? ’ |
| 21 | And was it worth it ? |
| 22 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 23 | And was it off this one central chamber that you took the tank chambers round ? |
| 24 | And was it on the main road that the one who was killed |
| 25 | As cricket chairman , I was left to carry the can for a move that made no sense and was none of my doing . |
| 26 | ‘ Too kind ! ’ he murmured , and was there beside her every step of the way until they reached the door of her flat . |
| 27 | Dr Losberne went up to examine Oliver , and was there for some time . |
| 28 | After graduating he travelled to Paris , and was there during the 1848 rising . |
| 29 | Born in 1870 , he had served during 1897 as honorary Vice-Consul at Van in Asia Minor , and was there during the Armenian massacres . |