Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you just Mrs 's children ? |
| 2 | ‘ Were you just colleagues , or close friends ? ’ |
| 3 | And where were you yesterday evening Simmone ? |
| 4 | How , how high up were you there Tone ? |
| 5 | were there ever occasions when there was one or more in your hay loft ? |
| 6 | And were there ever family squabbles which ruined a race ? |
| 7 | Were there only ladies in the house where you 've been ? ’ |
| 8 | It is true that the Victoria and Caledonian experiments did not introduce women into an existing office , but neither were they exclusively all-women affairs . |
| 9 | What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that |
| 10 | But were they really freeholders in the first place ? |
| 11 | Those socks I got Tony at Christmas , were they any good ? |
| 12 | Indeed , in the case of the imitations of Anglo-Saxon coins , provenance has indicated that some groups , previously attributed to the mint at Dublin under Sihtric III because of die links with coins bearing these names , were in fact made in Scandinavia , and that the coins of Sihtric were themselves also imitations . |
| 13 | With those last two straws cast upon the water , there was nothing more Manville could do except wait and hope . |
| 14 | Backstage , drying off with a towel , he asked : ‘ Was I any good ? ’ |
| 15 | It was somebody else Robert who was in there already . |
| 16 | In a tribute , West Ham United FC said Bobby Moore was their greatest-ever player . |
| 17 | Since being born in Carlisle 25 years ago , he has come steadily south to realise his cricket potential : from Cumberland ( at 20 , he was their youngest-ever cap ) , briefly via 2nd XI cricket in Lancashire and Worcestershire , to Warwickshire . |
| 18 | There was everything any guest could want . |
| 19 | This was something else Peter had n't told her . |
| 20 | This was something else Clive had been less than truthful about . |
| 21 | ( Counter-suggestibility was something else Waugh and Orwell had in common . ) |
| 22 | In the fifties and sixties g-force was something only fighter pilots worried about . |
| 23 | as if it was something only experience could teach , he advised , ‘ If they have a gun or a knife , whatever you 've got , hand it over . |
| 24 | ‘ I used to think it was something only mum came out with . |
| 25 | Just watch , I 'll put the Teletext on , out of all the races there was one there King 's Fountain , first , it had , it had only just come first and I 'd switched it on , I went wow |
| 26 | Was there just Mr or were there |
| 27 | And yet such an Englishman must wonder : Was there once virtue in England , which subsequently went out of her ? |
| 28 | Nor was there much evidence of concern in the correspondence columns of The Times — that bush-telegraph of respectable opinion — which were absorbed with more pressing matters such as the scarcity of swallows in England that summer . |
| 29 | Nor was there much evidence elsewhere , even before the open disturbances of the late 1980s , that non-Russian nationalities were merging their identity into that of a greater Soviet community . |
| 30 | Nor was there much inclination in France to pursue an active military policy . |