Example sentences of "were [conj] [pron] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 2 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 3 | Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults . |
| 4 | And you were If you had a spare room you were all Well I think you were forced to take in troops and we had Elizabeth , a baby , and we had lodgers , nearly all the wartime . |
| 5 | so that 's how close we were when we had the blow out thing . |