Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes there would be two hundred cards on the pavement before someone fluked a cover and then all the cards were his and he cleared the deck . |
| 2 | Er how old were you when you left the school ? |
| 3 | ‘ Where were you when I laid the earth 's foundations ? … when all the stars of the morning were singing with joy and the sons of God in chorus were chanting praise ? ’ |
| 4 | You would be in the dark though were you if you shut the power down . |
| 5 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 6 | Item — he believed the deaths of the mysterious young man and woman some eighteen months previously held the clue to the riddle surrounding Lady Eleanor 's demise , but who were they and what did the motto ‘ Noli me tangere ’ signify ? |
| 7 | Sweden 's Maria Gretzer , on Marcopille , was one but they had the next fence down and were among 10 sharing third place with four faults . |
| 8 | So successful was he that he named the new style after the insect . |
| 9 | I also remember leaving about 5 mins before the end to make the 5 mile walk to the station , only to hear the Leeds goal … or was it that I thought the noise was Leeds making it 3–2 ? ? ? |
| 10 | Was it because she knew the Miletti family only too well , and was determined that this time at least everything should not be conveniently hushed up ? |
| 11 | How far away was it when I started the watch ? |
| 12 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 13 | He went on , more to her father now than to her , in his light drawling voice she had to listen to in church every Sunday of her life telling them all what was what because he had the God-given power to do so and they had to listen and obey . |