Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I quite liked it where I were yesterday cos he were alright , him . |
| 2 | With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane . |
| 3 | ‘ Dieter , can you say exactly where you were yesterday , every minute of the day until you got back to Les Châtaigniers ? ’ |
| 4 | almost hopeful in a bad dream where you were long dead . |
| 5 | At a certain point you may appear to be back where you were before but you can not quite be sure . |
| 6 | [ to PAMELA , who is holding back slightly ] Why so strange here , Pamela , where you were once so familiar ? |
| 7 | So were you born here moved to Malton , moved back here and then moved to Malton or you were here and they you moved to Malton when she lived there ? |
| 8 | We had already negotiated long stretches of the Cherwell where we were completely hidden from view . |
| 9 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 10 | Where we were just now with the research then talk about questionnaires . |
| 11 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 12 | ‘ Where we were yesterday after school , ’ said Glenda Grower , apparently little concerned . |
| 13 | The Central gig was the first one where we were actually allowed to play our own set all the way through . |
| 14 | Twenty years of industrial strife had ensured that an industry where we were once world leaders was an object of pity and derision . |
| 15 | After church , if it was winter , we went straight home where we were often joined by some of Mum 's old friends , mostly unmarried . |
| 16 | On Aug. 26 some 150 immigrants from Ethiopia were persuaded to abandon a march and hunger strike they had begun in protest at overcrowding in the Ashkelon holiday village where they were temporarily housed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That subletting was widely practised can not be doubted , for not only in the cases examined was the number of proven freeholds relatively small , but , even in regions where they were most numerous they still formed a minority of all holdings . |
| 19 | The paediatric S.H.O. glanced around the room , but the only other occupants formed a tightly-knit group in the opposite corner , where they were loudly debating an ethical issue . |
| 20 | For the remainder it was back to Milford Station where they were probably penned overnight on the extremely wide platforms , before dispatch the next day in newly lime-washed trucks . |
| 21 | Her hopes for their return to the Lake District were finally realized ‘ home at Grasmere ’ , in the workaday setting of Dove Cottage ( 1799 ) , where they were soon joined by the Coleridges and Robert Southey [ q.v. ] and his wife from Keswick , and later by Thomas De Quincey [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | After their arrest , Mohammadreza Nezameddin Mohaved and the others were detained in Evin Prison , Tehran , where they were reportedly put under pressure to sign statements condemning their actions . |
| 23 | Babies were often sent away to be nursed in rural parishes where they were ill fed , overcrowded , and quieted with opiates ( see Fildes 1988 ) . |
| 24 | Thus , reading right-wing papers had most effect upon increasing Thatcher 's ratings on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and depressing Kinnock 's ratings on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 25 | Reading right-wing papers had most effect upon improving Thatcher 's image on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and damaging Kinnock 's image on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 26 | Compared with the previous county elections in 1989 , the Liberal Democrats ' vote rose most in the south of England — where they were generally better placed to win seats . |
| 27 | New labour relations are being introduced in industries where they were technologically or politically unthinkable a decade ago . |
| 28 | The war will leave all the multiple tensions of the region just where they were before , or worse . |
| 29 | As overhauled cars returned from Hendon , route boards were fitted just below the saloon windows , where they were more accessible than in the old position on the upper deck . |
| 30 | The majority of unmarried mothers were forced to enter the workhouse hospital for their confinements , where they were virtually imprisoned for a two-week period . |