Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 2 | He stayed right where he was until good manners forced her to offer to make him a drink too . |
| 3 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 4 | But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes . |
| 5 | ‘ Before you continue , Sir John , ’ Fitzormonde spoke up , ‘ and you start speculating on where I was , all I can say is that I was in my own chamber but no one saw me there . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't afford to go anywhere , I cant walk far , so I had to buy stuff locally where it was dearer because the bus fare was 64p . |
| 7 | My idea of prison was that it was somewhere where you were locked up and picked on all the time — that was my impression . |
| 8 | where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording . |
| 9 | Somewhere where there was plenty of social life . |
| 10 | Erm , Chair , on the general financial position , it 's , it 's what I referred to earlier , as moving from somewhere where there were a direct employer or where we were grant-aiding a voluntary body to get on to a more , ultimately a more commercial footing , where we relate the money that we 're paying to the services that are being provided . |
| 11 | Happen it would n't be long afore he was back here , and then they would see . |
| 12 | There was still no sign back home that anyone else was yet up , so Patsy put the paper bag down where they were playing and the two of them resumed their game . |
| 13 | BL have used carousels , but only to a limited degree and , it would appear , only where they were particularly vital to insulate the biggest machines from human variability . |
| 14 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 15 | It was more a trickle than a flood , for peaceful homesteads could be successfully built only where there was relative security , and where there were known to be agriculturally suitable regions . |
| 16 | But this equitable separate estate existed only where it was created by a will or settlement , or in the comparatively rare cases where the Court of Chancery exercised its jurisdiction to compel a husband to make a settlement upon his wife . |
| 17 | The happiest occupation for the cornetto is in playing florid divisions on vocal works — chansons , madrigals and the like , to which its ‘ vocal ’ qualities suit it , or in taking the place of the violin in sonatas and canzonas — and not only where it was a declared option , which is what happens in this recording . |
| 18 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 19 | ‘ It was safe enough where it was , until the river took a bite out of the hypocaust . |
| 20 | If truth were told , she still did n't care much where she was , she admitted reluctantly , because the one place in the world she longed to be was at Dane 's side , and that was strictly out of bounds . |
| 21 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 22 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 23 | She could have throttled Geoffrey , wriggling in where he was n't wanted . |
| 24 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 25 | If time were to run from the accrual of the cause of action , i.e. when the expenses were incurred , summary proceedings might often be statute-barred before they could be brought , especially where there was an appeal against the demand . |
| 26 | The court 's willingness to find an implied licence or permission was particularly strong in the case of children , especially where there was something attractive to children on the land . |
| 27 | They saw such truancy , often regarded as a symptom of deep-rooted social , emotional or economic problems , as something which , despite their best efforts , they could do little to alleviate especially where it was accepted by parents . |
| 28 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 29 | All were corked and sealed , and he was too circumspect to break the seals till he saw better where he was and what was to do . |
| 30 | Somehow , I felt it was rather sacrilegious to mention Jesus 's name aloud where we were . |