Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 2 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 3 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 4 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 5 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 6 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 7 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 8 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 9 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 10 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 11 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 12 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 13 | She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 14 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 16 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 17 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 18 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 19 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 20 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 21 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 22 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 23 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 24 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 25 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 26 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 27 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 28 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 29 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 30 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |