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 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well I expect he was hurt poor lad . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope you were having nice dreams , ’ he said . |
| 8 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 9 | When last seen he was wearing blue jeans , a cream sweatshirt , blue padded jacket and black shoes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |
| 12 | Now I noticed this with in the sitting room this year I got John , friend of Nev 's to repaint the walls because do you remember they were called soft peach ? |
| 13 | Hypertensives in the experimental group received intensive advice about their blood pressure , including guidance on weight control and salt restriction , and if that did n't work they were given anti-hypertensive drugs . |
| 14 | In a development that highlighted Rosyth 's struggle to survive , the MoD last night confirmed it was giving serious consideration to an attempt by Devonport to poach a £28 million ship refitting contract already awarded to the Fife yard . |
| 15 | I heard they were getting great preview reaction . ’ |
| 16 | The Marquis still faces charges of dodging taxi fares , but the case was adjourned after a court heard he was receiving psychiatric treatment . |
| 17 | I believe she was studying modern dance and had been a pupil of Mary Wigman , or of one of her disciples . |
| 18 | She was much disgusted and sent us a postcard saying she was developing webbed feet . |
| 19 | All the organizations that worked there were offered alternative accommodation , which they were all sensible enough to accept . |
| 20 | They rang the various commercial recorded lines which hinted they were offering sexual innuendo , which proved only to be glamour girls talking about dieting or holiday-making . |
| 21 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 22 | Anyone would think they were carrying open trucks of radioactive waste . |
| 23 | I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish . |
| 24 | Crone himself was visiting American toxicology laboratories last week observing methods for analysing toxins . |
| 25 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 26 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 27 | Sweeping waves of desire were pitching Sarella headlong to the point where she knew she was leaving common sense behind . |
| 28 | Another neighbour , Dr Charles Wright , said : ‘ We knew they were having marital difficulties , but Jane would n't tell anyone why she wanted a divorce . ’ |
| 29 | IF they thought they were breaking new ground by having the Institute of Directors host a discussion on the lack of women in the boardroom , then Donald Hardie , its Scottish director , and Henry Fairweather , Scottish & Newcastle 's personnel director who put the idea forward , were right — in more ways than one . |
| 30 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |