Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to wonder if my fellow-victims were having similar traumas . |
| 2 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 3 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 4 | I ca n't say that my revelations were having any effect on the Inspector . |
| 5 | And one of my jobs was to push these empties round and round |
| 6 | This was accompanied by the realisation that to isolate handicapped children from their contemporaries was to harm both groups . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that , while their husbands were drawing national insurance unemployment benefit , additional income to the household is not taken into account when determining eligibility for that benefit . |
| 8 | The rather crude experiment that Marie Gibbs made by putting the methylanthranilate in the chicks ' bills when their eyes were closed arid showing that this did not result in a change in receptors is one such test , but , because being blindfolded is itself scarcely a neutral experience for the birds , it ca n't be more than suggestive . |
| 9 | Here , as in the pollution debates over the hazards of sewage or acidification of lakes , the Commission and its supporters were applying one line of reasoning whereas environmentalists and scientists in other countries were applying another . |
| 10 | Their funds were given special protection by an act of 1793 and by 1803 their number in England had reached 9,672 . |
| 11 | Incentives for the private sector included a five-year plan under which companies were promised gradual income tax reductions amounting to 11-15 percentage points . |
| 12 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 13 | Three stone lighter and a virtual insomniac , she has campaigned tirelessly for their release and her efforts were rewarded last week when Michelle and Lisa were granted the right to appeal against their conviction for the murder of Alison O'Shaughnessy . |
| 14 | The chain of helpers worked hard swinging buckets of water from hand to hand between the village pond , fed by a small stream , and the burning manor , but their efforts were having little effect upon the fire . |
| 15 | The UFC 1989 Review 225 admitted that the numerical totals of publications were not found to be helpful in the assessment process , and their panels were agreed that quantity did not equal quality . |
| 16 | The UFC 1989 Review admitted that the numerical totals of publications were not found to be helpful in the assessment process , and their panels were agreed that quantity did not equal quality . |
| 17 | Indeed , their bodies were brushing each other when Ven raised an arm and , as if meaning to turn her away from him in the direction she must go , placed it around her shoulder . |
| 18 | Their bodies were found several days later when neighbours alerted police . |
| 19 | The most famous of all is the one that runs from Osmotherley to Raven Scar known as the Lyke Wake Walk , along which corpses were carried forty miles . |
| 20 | Firstly , patient selection bias would have affected the results if we ‘ picked and chose ’ ( either consciously or unconsciously ) which patients were to receive endoscopic examination . |
| 21 | Some of its members were experienced professional administrators . |
| 22 | This was a serious problem , and her instructions were to get any patient in this condition to the city hospital , eight miles away . |
| 23 | Many of the courses presented were thoroughly and lovingly prepared by lecturers from the polytechnics who fought hard at meetings with the officers of the CNAA and its panels to ensure that the school-centred elements in their courses were given due emphasis . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Defries was silent , in thought , for a moment , but her eyes did n't cease scanning the rocks , and her hands were making automatic checks of her suit 's status controls and of the weapons hanging at her waist . |
| 26 | You can see their minds were built that way because of the problems they get into both philosophically and technically . |
| 27 | You can see their minds were build that way because of the problems they get into both philosophically and technically . |
| 28 | A recent survey showed one in five parents were promoted once their children were given after-school care . |
| 29 | THE owners of two Redcar amusement arcades have put up a substantial reward after their premises were burgled this week . |
| 30 | Andreeva began by welcoming the more open atmosphere in which her students were discussing all kinds of issues , but deplored the way in which the Soviet past had become identified with mistakes and shortcomings . |