Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 2 | For a start , 80% of its staff come from the former graphics system builder , which was itself born of a marriage made in hell between bitter rivals Ardent Computer Inc and Stellar Computer Corp back in 1989 . |
| 3 | The latter ( which is not internationally recognized other than by Turkey ) was declared in November 1983 by the Assembly of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus , which was itself created after the occupation by Turkish troops of about 40 per cent of the island 's area in July 1974 . |
| 4 | The basic dimension of a mill was its width which determined both the length and the height , and which was itself determined by the length of the cotton-spinning ‘ mule ’ . |
| 5 | The shears were sharpened on a stone which was turned by a wheel , which was itself turned by a handle . |
| 6 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 7 | Stars who were nothing to do with the film but stuck their necks out anyway included Sharon ( Basic Instinct ) Stone and Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestley . |
| 8 | What was unexpected , at least by Adobe , was that Microsoft , who were themselves looking for an outline font technology for Presentation Manager , would side with Apple and agree to adopt TrueType . |
| 9 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 10 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 11 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 12 | Eliza Waters , who was herself venturing upon a cold , would have found it difficult to agree more . |
| 13 | Pappy and a dark little girl who was herself leaning against a lifeboat . |
| 14 | I used to come , and I used to go from there just past the top of there was two biggish houses erm who was it lived in the one some , somebody named and er and then there was er who was something to do at er on and somebody named who was , got a brewery at Dalston and , and they were ladies and proper genteel-type ladies at that . |
| 15 | Who was it crumbled like a piece of stale matzo under the onslaught from ben Issachar ? |
| 16 | We were nothing to do with the prison camp or the escaped prisoners . |
| 17 | Everything was He walks like an angel … |
| 18 | There were it came under the North Wales electricity supply . |
| 19 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 20 | There was nothing bearing on the present question , whether a release by accord and satisfaction of a claim for rent against an assignee would release the original lessee and other covenantors . |
| 21 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 22 | There was nothing said about the transfer . |
| 23 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 24 | I felt that there was nothing to fear from a united states of Europe with a single currency . |
| 25 | In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows . |
| 26 | His men stopped being paid , and there was nothing to buy with the money they had . |
| 27 | I could not get into a routine because there was nothing to get into a routine with ! |
| 28 | There was nothing to check in the front parlour ; hardly anything to say goodbye to , for the room was empty of furniture and must remain that way until the shops would once again have chairs and sofas and rugs and curtains to sell . |
| 29 | He appeared relaxed , yet there was nothing relaxed about the taut feel of the muscles where her hands were resting against his chest , nothing relaxed about the biting grip of the fingers spanning her waist . |
| 30 | The mortals seemed miserable and the children cruel and now there was nothing left of the spectacle . |