Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 2 | I ask whether this money too , which was given to him after the will was made , is understood to be included in the legacy . |
| 3 | Cheshire police said that message was relayed to them as the bombs exploded in Warrington 's Bridge Street at about 12.25pm . |
| 4 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 5 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 6 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 7 | The sweat was pouring from him when the ultimate moment arrived . |
| 8 | The choice was taken from her when a gust of wind suddenly snatched the door from her fingers and slammed it tight shut . |
| 9 | Diana was chatting to him when the telephone rang . |
| 10 | The peasants who cultivated the land became its owners and proprietors and a new law of inheritance was established by which when a man died his land was equally divided among his sons . |
| 11 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |