Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 2 | You 're exactly as you were on the day we met . ’ |
| 3 | We have won two out of four and it should have been more because we were in winning positions at Taunton and Liverpool . ’ |
| 4 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 5 | Would this be still while you were at school ? |
| 6 | And he seemed as if had been here when I was down the road |
| 7 | They were together and they were in love . |
| 8 | No , it meant you were there but it was for other people to do something about it — if anything had to be done . |
| 9 | Yes it is Now when he was at school |
| 10 | One of the nicest things about the house is that it is virtually as it was in 1906 , and with all its rooms of manageable size . |
| 11 | But it was only when I was in bed that night and unable to sleep that I realised the meaning of my horrified reaction : there would be another time , after I was dead , when I would not exist , when my consciousness would be extinguished . |
| 12 | Curator Steven Dyke said : ‘ This building is so authentic because it was just as it was in 1842 . |
| 13 | We had a good laugh , and the warmth that was there when I was in prison was still there — do you know what I mean ? |