Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 2 | The hill peoples were sending their representatives to a gathering at Panglong in the Shan States . |
| 3 | Afterwards I met two of these gentlemen who were exercising their elbows in a nearby hostelry and exercising their right to disagree on conscientious grounds with the Wesleyan distaste for alcoholic beverages . |
| 4 | Also , when staff were asked what features of a text would cause them to reject its use as a class reader , ‘ sexism ’ was volunteered as one such reason by staff in three of the six schools visited . |
| 5 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 6 | Retailers were pinning their hopes on a strong Christmas after recent figures published by the Central Statistical Office showed that the seasonally-adjusted volume of retail sales fell by 0.1% in November , reversing three continuous months of growth . |
| 7 | Ministers were pinning their hopes on a change of wording in ETA 's latest statement . |
| 8 | But many of their future commanders — John Durnford-Slater , Peter Young , Mike Calvert among them — were preparing their men for a new type of soldiering . |
| 9 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 10 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 11 | I felt as if someone was pressing my lungs with a steam-iron . |
| 12 | He was picking his teeth with a match while someone on the phone talked his ear off . |
| 13 | Simultaneously , de Gaulle was pushing his ideas in a parallel series of bilateral meetings , arguing the case with Adenauer in February 1961 and then with the Italian premier in early April . |
| 14 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 15 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 16 | Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast . |
| 17 | After a moment she realised that he was extolling her virtues as a personal assistant . |
| 18 | The committee was to submit its proposals to a 260-member consultative assembly responsible for drafting by the end of the year the new constitution which was expected to be presented for approval in a national referendum . |
| 19 | The dour , austere Miss Sowerby was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief she had tucked under a sleeve . |
| 20 | The woman was wiping her eyes on a screwed-up tissue . |
| 21 | With the knowledge , half admitted , that she was treating her friends in a pretty shitty way , and did n't deserve to have them , Cassie resolved to phone Stephanie on her return and arrange a meeting . |
| 22 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 23 | Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’ |
| 24 | As Roger Forester was closing up the cottage behind him DI Mike Schaffer was swinging his legs off a creaking camp-bed in the office of the Langstone schoolhouse and sitting groggily upright . |
| 25 | She was reading him parts of a letter from some fellow with a foreign name . |
| 26 | I believe I was collecting my thoughts for a renewed effort when the young gentleman suddenly rose to his feet , and clutching his attaché case to his person , said : ‘ Well , I think I 'll go and take a little fresh air . |
| 27 | At British level Rob was finding his feet as a coach , but found the initial lack of funding frustrating . |
| 28 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 29 | One month later , the young wife of a senior member of the Politburo was astonishing her friends with a necklace , earrings and bracelets of positively Tsarist splendour . |
| 30 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |