Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , neither were we when we took two trips to London in a fortnight . |
| 2 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |
| 3 | She should she should get sixty three so she 'll get a seventy three today , were it today you got it or Saturday ? |
| 4 | Hubert bowed his head and said he was aware of it ; but that there was nothing else he wanted to do . |
| 5 | He detested turkey and there was nothing else he fancied apart from the chocolate gâteau . |
| 6 | But there was nothing here which rang a bell . |
| 7 | There was nothing there she recognized . |
| 8 | As he was reading-it out he became aware of a movement at the back of the room . |
| 9 | She must tackle him herself , although there was someone else she wanted to see first . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's escaped from prison , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ but he had n't done anything , it was someone else who cheated and lied and Craig was the one to take the blame . ’ |
| 11 | However , Mr McAllister says that three days after Margaret McLaughlin 's death Beattie did not know her name and thought it was someone else who had died . |
| 12 | You know when his boss came in then things went downhill but yeah certainly Tom helped me and just the fact that there was someone there who knew exactly what was going on , be it not a lot but , he was trying to help us , and give us advice and what have you . |
| 13 | ‘ There was somebody else who heard him , sir . ’ |
| 14 | Oh yeah I knew it was you so it did n't make a lot of difference . |
| 15 | There was something else I had to say , and it was no good getting wobbly-voiced about it either . |
| 16 | That was something else I had learned in Dorothy Ward . |
| 17 | Just possible , hut that was something else I had never seen . |
| 18 | bring a , I knew there was something else I had to bring fabric . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , while I remember : there was something else I wanted to mention . |
| 20 | ROBBIE There was something else he said , about not having to look far to find out about my mother and everything . |
| 21 | Not only , she was thinking , did n't Arnie look after her the way Guido did , but , far more alarming , there was something else he 'd never done . |
| 22 | Besides , there was something else she had to do . |
| 23 | They laughed together , and as she locked up behind the girl Folly could n't help realising that that was something else she owed Luke , however indirectly . |
| 24 | That was something else she found maddening , the fact that he towered over her . |
| 25 | Innocent as I was , ignorant rather , I did not realize it was something else she spoke of . |
| 26 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 27 | It was he now who seemed suddenly embarrassed , ill at ease . |
| 28 | ‘ Was it then you discussed a possible marriage with Lady Margaret , sister of Philip IV of France ? ’ |
| 29 | thought he was it so we decided to bring him down three pegs or two |
| 30 | Talking about Jack , it was how he talked about Bert , how he talked about the men with whom he had this particular relationship : admiring , dependent , you could say passive … but who was it now who set the pace , making Bert go to Ireland , making Jack take them ? |