Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 2 | Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations |
| 3 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 4 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 5 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 6 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 7 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 8 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 9 | The number of actual evictions was tiny — less than twenty per year — though when they occurred they were given widespread publicity and the fears that they raised went far beyond what their numerical significance might indicate . |
| 10 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 11 | ‘ How do you know he was murdered that night ? ’ asked Blanche . |
| 12 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 13 | Well I expect he was hurt poor lad . |
| 14 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 15 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 16 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 17 | After trading what were to become stereotypical insults about bourgeois middle-class women and hard left male domination , a very large number of us walked out and from then on abandoned the formal conference altogether . |
| 18 | To know oneself was to know that order . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope you were having nice dreams , ’ he said . |
| 20 | When the Conwy tunnel was built we were told that money would then be available , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ When that call was made we were told both players would be coming down and we did n't have to apply any new rules . |
| 22 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 23 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 24 | When last seen he was wearing blue jeans , a cream sweatshirt , blue padded jacket and black shoes . |
| 25 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 26 | It 's hard enough for him to accept Angy 's shabby treatment of Rick , her lies about the ring and her deceit in letting him think she was carrying another man 's child . |
| 27 | Like , what the hell did you think you were doing last night ? |
| 28 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 29 | Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it . |
| 30 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |