Example sentences of "were [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hardly his own yet sprang from his heart as though , in those exalted moments , it were itself a living vessel of the Christmas mystery . |
| 2 | Were you a real rock pig on that tour ? |
| 3 | ‘ Were you a good parlourmaid , Sally-Anne ? ’ he enquired gently . |
| 4 | Were you a good girl ? |
| 5 | ‘ Were you a rowan last time ? |
| 6 | So how many years were you a French polisher then ? |
| 7 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Were you an only child ? ’ |
| 9 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 10 | ‘ Were you the first in the queue ? ’ |
| 11 | And were you the first born ? |
| 12 | At Rhos-y-Bol or were you the first there ? |
| 13 | I would not marry you now were you the last in the world , but by God I will take you , for you have tempted me sorely all these months , of set purpose . |
| 14 | ‘ Were you the last through Customs ? ’ he demanded imperiously , a frown marring the smooth gold of his forehead . |
| 15 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 16 | Sea trials began in November 1924 and were everything the wind-tunnel experiments had promised . |
| 17 | Why were there no financial records for 1887 and 1888 ? |
| 18 | There would be no epistemic appearances were there no such beings . |
| 19 | Not only were there no great causes left , as Look Back in Anger would have it . |
| 20 | Why were there no hot compresses on his limbs ? |
| 21 | Nor , obviously , were they a simple expression of Indian resistance to this assault . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 24 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 25 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 26 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 27 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 28 | Nor were they the same top three from one decade to the next : groups such as Kemsley disappeared , and the market share of a survivor such as Associated Newspapers fluctuated quite widely . |
| 29 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 30 | 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 . |