Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jes ' ordered you t'take charge of the prisoners , told you I wuz goin' t'check on somethin' , an' took off . |
| 2 | John Lee — possibly one of the candidates for Stockport 's School in 1534 ( he was born in Baguley , three miles from Stockport ) -was appointed Master at Cromer on 27th October 1534 . |
| 3 | The White Lion in Bala agreed to accommodate us , and over dinner I was glad to realize that Nigel 's fantasies were equalling mine , though of a different nature . |
| 4 | Right at the beginning someone said they were enjoying life at the moment because they were able to do what they wanted to do in Scotland . |
| 5 | All the family were enjoying life , and even Maureen seemed to have forgotten whatever it was that troubled her and to be quietly happy again . |
| 6 | ‘ We were enjoying tea , sir . ’ |
| 7 | The food followed quickly , and they both ate the delicious fresh fish with relish , and were enjoying coffee and coconut-cream pie when Stephen was called to the telephone . |
| 8 | Joyce Miller was walking past a bank when gunmen opened fire as security express guards were unloading money . |
| 9 | A few years ago , members of our union who were unloading cocoa beans when they arrived in the U K , began getting sick . |
| 10 | If this were to inhibit credit expansion it could lead to lower interest rates . |
| 11 | The idea that meaningful research could be done successfully without experiment still leaves some chemists feeling insecure , although many chemists now realise how slow they were to embrace quantum mechanics as a tool . |
| 12 | One of the earliest was the Reverend Edward Duke who , in the 1840s , found that several prehistoric sites , including Avebury , Silbury Hill and Stonehenge were aligned north-south with each other . |
| 13 | It was what , seventy eight percent over all , and in , and in a large , very large individual constituencies you were seeing turn out in the eighties . |
| 14 | Fleischmann told him that they were seeing heat coming from their cell in amounts that could only be understood if nuclear fusion was happening . |
| 15 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 16 | If he were to discontinue treatment and merely make the child comfortable , the courts would not find him guilty of manslaughter . |
| 17 | But these were some of the more welcome changes following the end of the Second World War , which were transforming life for people living in the countryside . |
| 18 | What is more interesting is to discover how far these were due to industrialisation , and used the same methods and technology as were transforming industry . |
| 19 | In throwing away the advantages of the nineteenth-century central city site in the nation 's capital there could be no surer sign that Canadians were allowing Mammon and the attendant philistines to destroy the heritage that had largely made the country . |
| 20 | On their heads were checked winter head scarves twisted into turbans that showed by the particular shape the area from which they came . |
| 21 | ‘ They were firing machine guns into the air . |
| 22 | Carried ‘ I knew the police were firing tracer bullets but I thought we would be safe at the back . |
| 23 | When the 1970s arrived , it was claimed that nuclear stations actually were producing electricity which was 35 per cent cheaper than coal and 50 per cent cheaper than oil . |
| 24 | At every stage in the development of the Minoan culture , the potters — and especially those working in the temple-precincts — were producing work to please their patrons . |
| 25 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 26 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 27 | We were producing coal at 71 of our 174 pits — 47 of which were working normally . |
| 28 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 29 | Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976 , including the massive Brent and Alpha fields . |
| 30 | There had long been some specialists , like vine-dressers or fishermen or cowherds or shepherds , who were producing food , but depended on others for their staple diet . |