Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 2 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 3 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 4 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 5 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 6 | She did n't think I was going to the loo . |
| 7 | Kicking and struggling I was forced to the floor and lay there , face down , while three boys sat on top of me and others pulled my shoes off . |
| 8 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 9 | A firm , insistent hand between my shoulder-blades pushed me further into the room ; my feet moved , but my body refused to follow and I realised I was standing at an angle . |
| 10 | I mean I was reading in the paper the other day it was on about recycling |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know I was playing until an hour before the kick off when Frank Gray told me . |
| 13 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 14 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |
| 15 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 16 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 17 | No costs may be claimed which were incurred before the relevant date set out in the Grant Offer Letter . |
| 18 | It was not known if Koos van der Merwe , an advocate of the negotiations process who was expelled from the CP in April [ see p. 38850 ] , had joined to the new party . |
| 19 | Michelle Dixon had claimed she was sacked from the massive Trees Park Village home in Middleton St George near Darlington after expressing concern over allegations of mice and cockroaches on the premises . |
| 20 | An opportunity for some of this pressure to vent itself was provided in the early sixties . |
| 21 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
| 22 | She found she was bursting for a pee , but was determined not to repeat Estelle 's performance . |
| 23 | erm to make the most of the holiday , and then found she was working in the sh in the middle . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing much else , really , as you can see from what I told the Brigadier — except that , whatever 's happened , I 've got nothing to do with it — I expect she was attracted by the light in my window if she was lost . ’ |
| 25 | I expect you were thinking about the virginal conception of Jesus which is described in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke . |
| 26 | How was I to know who was marching up the stairs and in here ? |
| 27 | Pat Ayers quotes one of those same street people : ‘ Just say you were standing on the corner , now if you had seen a policeman coming over the bridge … you automatically moved . |
| 28 | You can indicate a specific start point for the list by supplying a start Client identifier ; if not , the list will start at the last Client created who was associated with the specified Product . |
| 29 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 30 | Alter notifying our Commander , we chugged over in our motor boat to find she was crewed by a schoolmaster and several of his senior boys . |