Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether you were me or Jackie Milburn you got the same money , and it was n't much . |
| 2 | The court held that he was not guilty because the customers did not care whether the sandwiches were his or British Rail 's . |
| 3 | Sometimes there would be two hundred cards on the pavement before someone fluked a cover and then all the cards were his and he cleared the deck . |
| 4 | Alan 's ideas were so good that the Creative Director could n't believe they were his and set him a difficult test which had to be carried out in the agency . |
| 5 | ‘ It is clear that when the section 8(6) procedure comes into operation it is for the police officer to make the decision whether the sample to be provided shall be a sample of blood or urine , but the police officer must convey to the defendant that the sample to be required may be of either blood or urine and must give the defendant an opportunity to consider which sample he would prefer to give if the choice were his and any reasons he has for that preference . |
| 6 | After all , he reasoned , they were his bread and butter , they were his and his family 's family . |
| 7 | And such self-knowledge apparently breeds an admirable philosophy of stoicism and passivity in the poor who , according to Woolf-Murray , ‘ carried their burdens without complaint because they were theirs and that was all ’ . |
| 8 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 9 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 10 | Q : What were you and your husband doing at the time ? |
| 11 | Were you and the Lady Eleanor secretly married ? ’ |
| 12 | He said where were you and I said you were crying over Mo . ’ |
| 13 | Were you and I walking on clouds , we 'd be upsides with them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Mrs Tate , I have to ask you certain questions — questions which have already been put to others who were acquainted with Francis Garland , as were you and Doctor Tate . |
| 15 | I think a lot of people are just , you know , I 'm not getting involved in them , they might belt me one , walk away , anyway you ca n't blame them , sad , people ca n't , people ca n't say it were you and your boy , you know , leave that , leave that alone or else I 'll go and get a policeman , the fear of them |
| 16 | How terrible it was that here were she and Brian , possessed of every material advantage , subconsciously blaming each other for something they either had or did not have . |
| 17 | I remember the people that we fed and those who fed us ; after all , what were we but one vast family . |
| 18 | We finished the day with an impromptu game of football in a nearby meadow , followed by a visit to a local hotel which catered for travellers , and who else were we but that ? |
| 19 | Item — there had been horsemen seen near the priory , but who were they and who had sent them ? |
| 20 | Item — he believed the deaths of the mysterious young man and woman some eighteen months previously held the clue to the riddle surrounding Lady Eleanor 's demise , but who were they and what did the motto ‘ Noli me tangere ’ signify ? |
| 21 | In indicating content and method they spawn ‘ approved ’ material of all kinds which , if used , serves to protect the individual teacher from any criticism which might arise were he or she to follow a more tangential or personalised approach to meeting curriculum goals . |
| 22 | If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines . |
| 23 | I think the keys she was playing with were mine and I want them back . ’ |
| 24 | I was sorry for her , but in my opinion she had only herself to blame for being in such a mess , and I was smugly self-satisfied that the problems were hers and not mine . |
| 25 | ‘ The signatures on those cheques to her were hers and she had done it to finance her drinking habit . ’ |
| 26 | She would wake in the night hearing sobs , then realize they were hers and immediately stop . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |
| 28 | There was me and her , Wally , Malcolm and Paul . |
| 29 | There was me and Charlie and Maurice and Jack left and we went when they closed . |
| 30 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |