Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 2 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
| 3 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 4 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 5 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 6 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |