Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon three spiders were inching their way along the wall towards a small window on the ground floor . |
| 2 | At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling . |
| 3 | The troops were given their briefing in the hall . |
| 4 | And while they were biding their time over a game of backgammon down in the café , William used to wander through the silent , cluttered rooms where their investment languished , gathering dust . |
| 5 | Dave said : ‘ Before the field trip , we were basing our knowledge on a lot of speculation : we had little direct access to data and there was little consensus among academics and the oil industry as to what the source rocks are . ’ |
| 6 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 7 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 8 | Suragai and Kadan were walking their st'lyan on the grass where the stream curved away out of sight , each of them with one of the twins in the saddle . |
| 9 | Both the DoI and the 600 Group were keeping their information on the effects of robots on employment to themselves . |
| 10 | Public concern was also heightened on Sept. 29 by an announcement that the prosecuting authorities were ending their investigation into the cases of 12 other politicians , none of whom was named , who had received some of the Sagawa Kyubin money originally given to Kanemaru . |
| 11 | It was almost as if an invisible hand were pressing his finger against the barrel . |
| 12 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 13 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 14 | When Dyer , Brown and Goldstein ( 1970 ) were writing their book in the later 19605 , there was very little practice to guide their comments on non-book media , which were therefore very general , but the importance was recognized and the book made a brave , if insufficient , attempt at a new educational basis for a library programme . |
| 15 | He complained that Sadler and the ITN crew were compiling their material under the supervision of Iraqi minders and subject to the distortions of the Iraqi censors . |
| 16 | On the patio , some Italian children were rehearsing their contribution to the show being put on for parents that evening . |
| 17 | Well it 's a pity you did n't think of your daughter when you were whoring your way around the world , is n't it ? |
| 18 | Advertisements were placed in the International Herald Tribune , the Washington Post and the New York Times at the end of January , purporting to announce that several well-known figures were withdrawing their support from a campaign backed by the human rights organization Amnesty International for the release from prison of Mohammed al-Fassi . |
| 19 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
| 20 | On the night of the murder they were celebrating their engagement with a party . |
| 21 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher confirmed in the Commons that ministers were reconsidering their opposition to a sustained campaign by an all-party group of MPs . |
| 23 | The Commission held a hearing in Brussels on 21 November last stating that , as part of their wish to harmonise copyright and neighbouring rights throughout the EC , they were turning their attention to the question of droit de suite . |
| 24 | If only Mr Brooke were to stick his head above the parapet he would soon realise that fact . |
| 25 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 26 | By excluding love-making from the sphere of operation of the notion of autonomy , Kant and Hegel were limiting its scope in the ‘ public ’ realm . |
| 27 | The ambassador tried to explain what he knew of the sources of unrest and said he thought the mullahs were getting their money from the merchants in the bazaars , not from the CIA . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the LEAs were expanding their provision through a diversified range of courses of ‘ instruction ’ in practical skills , many of which were provided for occupational qualifications at ‘ night schools ’ or evening institutes . |
| 29 | Following his nature , and before his sixteenth birthday , Edward Thomas had somehow combined a love of nature and of literature , twin aspects of realized contemplation that were to characterize his life as a writer of prose and verse . |
| 30 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |