Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |
| 2 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 3 | Moon or summat were n't it ? |
| 4 | Feeling fury begin to soar in her again , she determinedly stayed where she was when she heard sounds that indicated that both men were leaving . |
| 5 | ‘ I could show you exactly where we were when we first discussed it , ’ he continued . |
| 6 | I mean they 're , they ended up about what were they , about fifth or something were n't they ? |
| 7 | for granddad or whatever it was or something were n't it ? |
| 8 | Turkey had n't finished last or something were n't it ? |
| 9 | Well that was Joe er Henry or something were n't it ? |
| 10 | Stort Valley or something was n't it ? |
| 11 | When you think that one what was thirty three thousand two hundred and sixty a month or something was n't it ? |
| 12 | And about nineteen twenty eight or something was n't it ? |
| 13 | Crumple Stilton or something was n't it ? |
| 14 | Yes , I did n't realize that but she 's got to come back fo for an exam or something was n't it ? |
| 15 | I said do n't be so bitchy or something was n't it ? |
| 16 | Yeah he was Commandant Le Pew or something was n't it ? |
| 17 | American pop star or something was n't it ? |
| 18 | But I mean it 's like Hugh , they said he had n't registered or something was n't it ? |
| 19 | Something on the erm reef or something was n't it ? |
| 20 | The introduction by TNCs of industries where there were previously none at all . |
| 21 | Koppes comments on the launch of the Russian Sputnik : ‘ JPL personnel could remember years later where they were when they heard the news , what they first thought , and what they did . ’ |
| 22 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 23 | The fact that I was where I was might be highly unlikely ; that did not make his being there any more likely . |
| 24 | As long as my father was alive I felt that I was not myself but his son , as I hope my son will feel for me — if I ever have a son , that is . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I mean ’ , said Stephen , ‘ that I was not myself as I am now , as I had to become . ’ |
| 26 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 27 | He had a set of photocopied notes , which implied that I was n't his first apprentice . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , ’ she assured him cheerfully , but suddenly thought to ask , ‘ Did you tell your cousin that I was n't your friend — in the ‘ girlfriend ’ sense , I mean — by the way ? ’ |
| 29 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
| 30 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |