Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long did you actually leave the er how long were you away from the car for ? |
| 2 | Were you up at the garage ? |
| 3 | So what time were you up in the morning then ? |
| 4 | What time were you up in the mornings ? |
| 5 | Why were you not with the children ? |
| 6 | Were you here on the day your Joy ? |
| 7 | ‘ Were you here in the war ? ’ |
| 8 | Were you ever at the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Colonel Scotland , were you ever in the German army ? ’ |
| 10 | Walker to rock-climber — ‘ So , were you out on the hill today ? ’ |
| 11 | Were you out in the playground in the wind ? |
| 12 | Were you backstage during the show ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 14 | " The boy ; they were n't there when we went in nor were they around on the two occasions I checked the street , not were they there when I accompanied the doctor to the cab . " |
| 15 | Were they not under the Cross ? |
| 16 | Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ? |
| 17 | It is quite possible that a number of other political changes would have got under way more recently were it not for the direct intervention of Pope John Paul II and the Vatican . |
| 18 | A great detective might have considered this an astounding coincidence were it not for the fact that the hostelry was the only place in the whole of King 's Magnum Parva where a lady or a gentleman might obtain a meal . |
| 19 | The poem itself he found ‘ a pompous parade of erudition ’ , and he decided that ‘ were it not for the Laforgue mechanism , Mr Eliot s poetic variations on the theme of a super-refined futility would be increasingly thin and incredibly second rate ’ ( The Freeman , 17 January 1923 ) . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 21 | All of these things can be found here , in an album which could well be a Bunnymen work , were it not for the absence of much of the pomposity to which they were inclined ( though , unrepentant fans will note , not all of it judging by track titles like ‘ The White Hotel ’ and ‘ Proud to Fall ’ ) . |
| 22 | Many would dismiss Peter Thompson 's pessimism out of hand were it not for the fact that he was the author of a paper in July 1987 , when the market was at its pre-crash high , called ‘ The End of the Long Bull Market ’ . |
| 23 | This might plausibly be dismissed as ‘ Victorian stupidity ’ were it not for the tact that in Britain in 1988 a similar view was actually inscribed in law . |
| 24 | Encased in pile and nylon , hoods drawn tight , it would be easy to forget the world in a welter of sensations , were it not for the running commentary that Tove keeps up . |
| 25 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 26 | Were it not for the support of sympathetic friends , the residents in our Homes and those who work in our factory could not be given the necessary help and encouragement to overcome their handicap , for we are dependent on voluntary help . |
| 27 | Kurtag is Ligeti 's opposite — a divergent musical thinker whose every new work might be by another composer , were it not for the extreme compression that is constant to his style . |
| 28 | But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered . |
| 29 | IWOULD agree that male and female stereotypes portrayed in cartoons are equally abhorrent , were it not for the fact that , whilst one pokes fun at a powerful group in society ( men ) , the other perpetuates the oppression of a powerless group ( women ) . |
| 30 | He also held , dubiously , that were it not for the corruptions imposed by state and law , men would develop bonds of instinctive solidarity which would make government unnecessary . |