Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They swallowed it and said they were charging me with handling stolen goods . |
| 2 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 3 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 4 | And the job he was telling her about seemed interesting and desirable . |
| 5 | There was nothing new in it to be discovered , and it was preventing them from making new discoveries elsewhere . |