Sentence examples for were and were from inspiring English sources

What elements were and were not helpful and how?

Some were, and were treated badly by him – but not all.

Tells what these Mongrels were and were not permitted to do.

"That would show what allegations were and were not proven, so that innocent people are not unfairly maligned," he said.

NatWest is unable to trace the person you spoke to when you opened the account, so we cannot establish what you were and were not told.

In fact, both those who were and were not involved with the new study cautioned against overgeneralizing from these latest findings.

Best of all, the dancers were (and were allowed to be) individuals, with distinctive body shapes and personalities and an evident delight in moving.

She and her brother went to Somerset briefly, wrote to their mother to say how unhappy they were, and were brought home.

All those female bodies, all those colored men they were and were not himself, just as Atget's Paris was and was not himself.

Once we got clear about who we were and were not, it got easier to do our business".

In Peter Hitchens's "Abolition of Britain," there's rather more rose than gold in the depiction of a bygone age when Britons anchored by faith, deference and shared imperial memory knew who they were and were proud of it.