Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 2 | There were groups fishing all night on both banks but maybe there was no connection . |
| 3 | An LDP member of the Upper House , Masaru Urata , on Nov. 27 also accused Takeshita of having perjured himself and there were threats to begin legal proceedings against him . |
| 4 | Since 1947 Spoonbills have been recorded each year , except in 1959 , 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1969 , 1973 , and 1976 , and there were records involving 82 birds . |
| 5 | In the House of Lords yesterday there were calls to make female cab services an exception to the Employment Act . |
| 6 | There were letters offering practical help . |
| 7 | The range of its activities was immense : in addition to the building of schools , hospitals , bridges and highways , there were schemes to provide useful employment for writers and artists . |
| 8 | He says in the 1950's there were plans to dump nuclear waste in mineshafts . |
| 9 | At the open nights , Brigade officers were also available to chat with potential applicants and there were displays showing other aspects of the work such as training and community education . |
| 10 | Charles was quite right and there were units called Independent Companies . |
| 11 | There were fences dividing green fields where sheep , cattle and horses grazed , while in the distance were higher fences forming enclosures for deer . |
| 12 | First , there were districts containing special areas : these were the partnership areas in Birmingham , London ( seven Boroughs : Greenwich , Hackney , Islington , Lambeth , Lewisham , Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets ) , Liverpool , Manchester , Salford , Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead . |
| 13 | There were people holding each other . |
| 14 | And then she said there was stuff called textured paint that has , it 's like paint with lumps in it . |
| 15 | If ever there was proof needed that public opinion works , this is it . |
| 16 | For example available information was not being sent ; there was reluctance to put certain items in writing ; telephone messages left with a third party could be distorted ; there was incomplete information ; there was a lack of feedback . |
| 17 | There was intention to create legal relations because they wanted to tell Violet about it immediately and two of the cousins did so with the support of the others . |
| 18 | There was time to watch this game ! |
| 19 | Finally , it might conclude that there was authority to modify common law and equitable rules so that the rule modified the fiduciary duty with which it conflicted . |
| 20 | Yet they were attempts to answer real questions , and not simply for fundamentalists . |
| 21 | Perhaps they were criminals keeping one step ahead of the police ! ’ jokes Gedge . |
| 22 | ‘ I just thought they were people wearing one shoe . |
| 23 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 24 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that Cruelty was cruel and only call people cruel or particular things . |
| 25 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that cruelty was cruel , you can only call people cruel , particular things . |
| 26 | These are some of the questions and comments I 've heard recently and I thought it was time to give some answers . |
| 27 | Helen Carpenter has always taken an interest in clothes and has a good eye for colour but , approaching 40 , she felt it was time to rethink some areas of her looks . |
| 28 | She decided that she had done enough research ; it was time to start detailed plotting of her novel . |
| 29 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 30 | The Mother Superior knew it was time to end this interview , so now she stood up , saying , ‘ Well , Mrs Winkowski , I 'm sure you can leave your charge with us with an easy mind . |