Example sentences of "were [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 2 | ‘ Were you the first in the queue ? ’ |
| 3 | And were you the first born ? |
| 4 | At Rhos-y-Bol or were you the first there ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Were you the last through Customs ? ’ he demanded imperiously , a frown marring the smooth gold of his forehead . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 9 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |