Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , new Protestant and Catholic trade unions were organised which rejected both the class war concepts and the optimistic socialist utopianism of the secular unions , with the result that three rival trade union centres were created ( Albeda , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 3 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
| 4 | It was suspected he serviced both the master and the mistress in their chambers . |
| 5 | When the horn was robed she threaded back the leather of the necklace and gave it to Dreamer , who put it round his neck and tucked this frail memory of the broken boy into his furs . |
| 6 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 7 | I do n't mind but that getting a like when Shirl first came she was to get everything done exactly the same time |