Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched the strange smile on the American woman 's face — like the smile students wore in the movie-house at Toronto when they were watching some particularly syrupy moment from a corny trailer , extorted smiles , full of shame and self-consciousness , but the suppressed emotion sincere enough and shown unguarded in the darkness , except I was playing the voyeur . |
| 2 | The result was to see 450 previously long term unemployed people move into jobs with training — in almost all cases to vocational qualification Level II or above . |
| 3 | One of the difficulties in the early stages of this work was to find any reasonably reliable method of measuring whisker strengths . |
| 4 | Edward , at the same time and eight miles away , was dispensing some moderately expensive education to the Lower Fourth at Croxford House . |
| 5 | To insist that Danzig was Polish on any other grounds than practical economics was to enlist some very uncertain history . |
| 6 | He was taking this highly nervous lady away from the local hospital to one in the Bedford area . |