Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except that you were right when you once accused me of having a personal prejudice . |
| 2 | They were thrilled when they suddenly realized that not only had Tom Mix and Gloria Swanson been in the audience on opening night but were in the same room with them at the party afterwards . |
| 3 | His mother 's knuckles were white as she protectively gripped the plastic handles . |
| 4 | Peter Northfield , public affairs manager for the Great Eastern division of BR 's Network SouthEast , said some commuters were angry because they normally used the carriage which had been taken over by protesters . |
| 5 | The gates were open so they just drove right in . |
| 6 | The upper rooms were silent when he finally went to his own room , but before getting into bed he pushed his wedge of broken chair-leg under the door to keep the Bogeyman out . |
| 7 | I was pregnant before I ever left Ireland . ’ |
| 8 | Guy Sterne 's smile was dry as she finally emerged to join him by the outdoor pools , her expression almost serene . |
| 9 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 10 | ’ We had one month when we were losing thousands of pounds worth of clothes each week , ’ says branch manager Sue Turner ’ It was strange because we never caught anyone . |
| 11 | For their part it was unnecessary as they only drank what had been boiled for tea or coffee , whereas I often drank water on its own or with fruit cordial . ) |
| 12 | ‘ She was upset because I nearly lost my temper with her . |
| 13 | Not by any stretch of the imagination could she be called beautiful and it was doubtful if she ever had been , but she was undeniably attractive . |
| 14 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 15 | With Pakistan making the running in the group , the second England-West Indies game was crucial as it virtually assured the winners of a semi-final place . |
| 16 | It was dark when we finally left the area of the 51st Highland Division , arriving back at the clearing in the woods near to Bavent , very much refreshed , outwardly and inwardly , not forgetting the gift of a bottle of best malt whisky . |
| 17 | The Sergeant was thoughtful as he carefully stubbed out his cigarette with his thumb and finger and put the stub back in the cigarette packet . |
| 18 | When cornered she had promised to come to the showroom , but when the time came there was no Dana and Claudia was lucky if she even got a flimsy excuse . |
| 19 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was puppy-fat because she always said she was very young , though she did n't look it . |
| 21 | The basic assumption of this form of life , extending from school to university , was that imaginative literature was inherently valuable , and that it was valuable because it pleasurably conveyed emotion and profound insights into the life of things . |
| 22 | Even so , Virginia was glad when they finally reached the baths and found there was a choice of communal outdoor pools or private indoor ones . |
| 23 | This was unusual as we normally have a better record of reliability than that . ’ |
| 24 | It was late when we finally eased our stiff limbs into the night . |
| 25 | It was better if it never had happened . ’ |
| 26 | I hope that my being there was helpful because I certainly came away with many happy memories and no one can take that away . ’ |
| 27 | With this , El Cid at once avenged the death of his son and once again showed that any attempt to reconquer Valencia was fruitless while he still lived . |
| 28 | For a start , the weather was atrocious when they most needed to acclimatize , and in their first seven weeks they had only seventeen days of cricket . |
| 29 | In the event it was 1928 before they finally left the course on loan to a Mr. Parsons so long as he looked after them . |
| 30 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |