Example sentences of "and [was/were] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 The protests were accompanied by at least eight cases of self-immolation , several of which resulted in deaths and were themselves the focus of further protests .
2 Sea trials began in November 1924 and were everything the wind-tunnel experiments had promised .
3 And were you the first born ?
4 The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it .
5 He was a tawny lion poised for the kill — and was she the prey ?
6 She had been a message , she told me , and was it the telephone ?
7 and was it the suit that was the thing you always used to pawn ?
8 And was it the Snowdrop ?
9 Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books .
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