Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 2 | I was learning very fast to walk in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | I was persuaded long ago to use Flora instead of butter . |
| 4 | I told him I was coming down here to fetch you , and here I am . |
| 5 | There are now two active groups of doctors and a group for nurses which were set up specifically to oppose the use of animals in medical research on the grounds that it is unscientific . |
| 6 | The successful birds had two young which were feathered well enough to show the black bar along the grey wings which distinguishes immature kittiwakes . |
| 7 | We consider the rationale and the manner of the legal profession 's projection of an image of altruism and focus upon one legal service , the duty solicitor scheme , which was set up ostensibly to serve the community . |
| 8 | This dual safeguard , which was designed not merely to maintain the real value of benefits , but also to guarantee that they paralleled any increase in the real incomes of the working population , was removed in 1980 . |
| 9 | She personally recruited university-trained teachers , who were prepared not only to provide their services free but also to participate in the social life of the college . |
| 10 | ‘ I said you were sunk low enough to match his sordid background , yes . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She said she was going off somewhere to meditate before the afternoon session . |
| 12 | Charles acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and became a patron of Rubens and van Dyck as well as of Inigo Jones , who was commissioned not only to build palaces but to write and produce masques at Court . |
| 13 | We were assigned almost immediately to carry our share on such missions as , Hanover , Berlin and then there were those shallow missions to North Africa and , and of Russia . |
| 14 | We were brought up nicely to go with my father who used to sing in the church choir . |
| 15 | We were going too fast to see any details of the moored vessels so I just snapped a random photograph and , at the very same instant , the Maggot swore and banked and rammed the throttles hard forward . |
| 16 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 17 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 18 | The landscapes differed from those of the last day 's walk , and were seen in another mood ; the rain-clouds floated high , the road lay over rocky ridges , the homesteads had an amplitude of stone wall fencing over these exposed seaboard cliffs ; and they were built more compactly to withstand all assaults . |
| 19 | They were moving too fast to jump out . |
| 20 | I was busy cooking , blissing out on the aroma of cod in a yoghurt and fresh coriander sauce , and was n't really listening , but through the vapours there penetrated the fact that in Derbyshire they were queuing up recently to do a route on Raven Tor which is ‘ easy 8a , ’ in order to get into a book which David Jones has assembled on climbers — particularly those who can climb 8a . |
| 21 | They felt they were working hard enough to make their hearts stronger and at the same time they were stretching their bodies sufficiently to reach their deeper muscles . |
| 22 | To prevent an outcry by the troops , or even a mutiny , against the decision , they were told they were turning back only to dispose of General Wade . |
| 23 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 24 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 25 | And here she stayed on public display until 1868 when it was decided not only to close the museum but also to lay Hannah Beswick to rest . |
| 26 | As before , a little water was used to thin the acrylic to the consistency of cream and most of it was gone over twice to get an even coverage of bright intense colour . |
| 27 | So that the forest could retain its wildness — its original denseness — it was forbidden back then to cut trees or hunt animals , though people were permitted to collect berries , nuts , fruits and medicinal plants . |
| 28 | He was instructed not actually to conclude a sale without first referring back to his principal ; he was to receive commission if a sale was concluded . |
| 29 | In later records , notably the census returns of 1841 and 1851 , he was said more specifically to follow the trade of fancy weaver , that is the manufacture of waistcoats and other garments with decorative patterns . |
| 30 | Yeah , I mean I do n't know how powerful they were that , I mean he were n't , he were n't belting on those but there was , he was playing loud enough to appreciate with its own you know |