Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 2 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 3 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
| 4 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 5 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 6 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |