Example sentences of "[was/were] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up , face scarlet , looking at her and speaking to her as though she were the whore he had called her . |
| 2 | I were thinking , oh it were the day you came up with them and then you went off to , er |
| 3 | Being the senior trainers for the whole county could be a full time job , and I am afraid that if that were the case we would have to give it all up . |
| 4 | For the system to work you would need to ensure that your colleagues had a copy — and if that were the case they might even read the book . |
| 5 | If this were the case it would explain why they had not held meetings on this occasion . |
| 6 | ‘ If that were the case I 'd hardly have accepted your invitation , ’ she pointed out with some asperity . |
| 7 | ‘ If that were the case he could have it and welcome . |
| 8 | They were the pair he had worn last night , which meant … she swallowed convulsively . |
| 9 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 10 | The stairs were the kind you could see through . |
| 11 | In contrast to the parties given in his honour , from which Eliot would contrive to slip away after a token attendance , these functions , never too large , were the kind he most enjoyed . |
| 12 | These were the questions I wanted to put when I sought him out in France . |
| 13 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 14 | And that were the mistake he made last time . |
| 15 | These were the smells she was sending across the city … |
| 16 | Brutal it were the way he knocked the other feller about . ’ |
| 17 | While you 're working that one out , you might like to know that the other things Taylor regrets were the way he handled two television interviews . |
| 18 | ‘ Who were the friends he was with when I was at your house ? ’ |
| 19 | In the bedrooms were the curtains she had known all her life , and the fitted carpets remained , but beds and cupboards had been spirited away . |
| 20 | You were the person they looked on as an authority and father figure , a trust you clearly betrayed . |
| 21 | ( Write as if you were the person you have chosen . ) |
| 22 | ‘ You were the man she answered the door to , ’ he said glumly . |
| 23 | ( This sentence is in the passive voice because the words " impartiality " and " impersonal " were the ones we wished to fix in your mind as you read the sentence . ) |
| 24 | Er the ones they did ride were the ones they used to drive at erm ah , down the two jars but er and that was a completely different way of life then to what that is now . |
| 25 | When I was a young lad in the ‘ fifties , the foreboding ‘ X ’ certificate was awarded to films which showed people in bed together or — and these were the ones I wanted to see — the Mummy , the Werewolf , Dracula , and good old Frankenstein . |
| 26 | His eyes , those tiger eyes , retaining mine from the moment I turned , were the ones I remembered ; steady , with no fear , without bravado . |
| 27 | Oh dear , and er I got new pair of sheets , because they were erm they were the ones I had . |
| 28 | Now , all these were black sheep , they were the nicest of the lot , and there was no , they were the ones you turned to , if you wanted to discuss your troubles . |
| 29 | For her the world was full of young men whose bodies were untainted by disease and these — he persuaded himself — were the ones she really craved , having no care for him at all , except some morbid interest in a diseased thing , which , presently , she would thrust aside with a disdainful shudder . |
| 30 | Kylie said she got on better with men than women , but put that down to the fact that the three guys in question were the ones she most closely worked with on the series . |