Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you just Mrs 's children ? |
| 2 | ‘ Were you just colleagues , or close friends ? ’ |
| 3 | A recent anthology on spirituality has a quotation by Martin Buber from Rabbi Zusya when he said a short while before his death , " In the world to come I shall not be asked why were you not Moses ? |
| 4 | I shall be asked why were you not Zusya ? " |
| 5 | And where were you yesterday evening Simmone ? |
| 6 | Were you out front ? ’ |
| 7 | How , how high up were you there Tone ? |
| 8 | The great , I mean , you 've a valid point and I think it 's due to the recession in America , I think we were disappointed were we not Bruce , that the results of our trip to er , New York State , and this has nothing to do with the enthusiasm of the business people we met there , everything to do , in my view , with the fact that the recession , and America 's been through a very tough recession , they just do n't look to expand elsewhere , but the reaction we had in , in er , in America was very , very powerful of , of a wish to want to do something when things look better . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that |
| 11 | But were they really freeholders in the first place ? |
| 12 | Those socks I got Tony at Christmas , were they any good ? |
| 13 | Backstage , drying off with a towel , he asked : ‘ Was I any good ? ’ |
| 14 | Was he not Quechua with an Inca name which meant lanza sagrada , sacred lance ? |
| 15 | And Mike ; was he still kind , gentle ? |
| 16 | Was he any good ? ’ |
| 17 | Was it just shyness ? |
| 18 | Was it just possessiveness , wanting it all , all of me , or … ? |
| 19 | Or was it just noises in the skull ? |
| 20 | Was it just kind of like a dance ? |
| 21 | Was it just entrepreneur 's hype that had made him say ‘ do n't want to ’ rather than ‘ ca n't ’ ? |
| 22 | ‘ And was it just coincidence that I get invited to the Flaxton dance , that I 'm seated next to him ? |
| 23 | ‘ Was it just retirement ? ’ |
| 24 | Would anyone else have mocked her , or was it just Guido ? |
| 25 | Was it mostly women ? |
| 26 | Did not the patients charter cost £2 million to publicise and launch and was it not £2 million worth of Conservative propaganda ? |
| 27 | If they felt compelled to pick a popular musician , then why was it not Eric Clapton , who is by far the most elegantly-tailored gentleman in rock ? |
| 28 | Was it not infatuation , rather ? |
| 29 | Was it simply curiosity — or did it go deeper than that , and was she right to have this strange feeling of apprehension ? |
| 30 | Was it simply incoherence on his part when he suggested that his ‘ science of history ’ , even though it allows for differentiated histories , still demands to be considered within a general concept of history ? |