Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [adv] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally took off the overtrousers , the fleece trousers I was wearing underneath were completely dry , which is what I would have expected from their three-layer Gore-Tex construction . |
| 2 | I was going up were n't I ? |
| 3 | The cushions I was lying on were plastic-covered , but they were adorably comfortable since all I 'd expected was a paving slab . |
| 4 | It was the same hexagonal design as any of the thousands you can still see along the South Coast or that you suddenly come across in the wilds of East Anglia for no apparent reason until you realize that the fields you 're driving through were once airfields littered with empty Lucky Strike packets and B52 bombers . |
| 5 | You were jumping up were n't you ? |
| 6 | Anna was much more oppressed by the society around her because her affair was more public than Dona 's and also because the surrounding she was living in were so suffocating . |
| 7 | It was light and clean , and although the parts she was working on were tiny , Anne was neat and dextrous and found the tasks easy . |
| 8 | Well a little more , in future ask travels for the earliest make changes and deal with the future and again this is remarkable that only sixty five per cent absolutely endorse that but our potentials in the , if you look at the next examples , forty four we are told here were in favour of the strategy and thirty six per cent opposed . |
| 9 | Like the time we were riding in Australia and the conditions we were living in were awful . |
| 10 | He come back round about an hour and a half later we were broke down were n't we ? |
| 11 | Well they were wrapped up were n't they ? |