Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 2 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 3 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 4 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 5 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 6 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 7 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 14 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 15 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 16 | Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths . |
| 17 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 18 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 19 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 20 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 21 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 24 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 25 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
| 26 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 27 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 28 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 30 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |