Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were sending you off without a decent breakfast you could say that , but as it is … ’ |
| 2 | They were very relaxed and Skip conveys the feeling that they were treating it more as a cruise than a race . |
| 3 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 4 | They were boys of fifteen or sixteen and they were watching her keenly from a position by the railings at the far corner of the church . |
| 5 | They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date . |
| 6 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 7 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 8 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 9 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 10 | it 's like , yeah but it 's like , it 's like any big conglomeration int it , if , if I was to buy you out as a company you 're gon na |
| 11 | He was kissing her now with a delicate urgency , her cheeks and temples , her closed eyelids and long , slender throat . |
| 12 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 13 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 14 | But now Josie was gradually coming to realise that Lucy was treating it not as a metaphor for anything , but as the literal truth . |
| 15 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 16 | ‘ I found out , by chance , that the girl I was in love with and hoping to marry was having it off with a colleague . |
| 17 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 18 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 19 | Johnny was regarding her now with a singularly unpleasant smile . |
| 20 | Hastings had showed an interest in the Yarmouth fisheries , with the four main Kentish ports , long before the Conquest ; what the latter did eventually was to weld them together in a loose federation for supplying ship rather than knight service in return for limited privileges . |
| 21 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 22 | He was a nice man , and she quite liked him , but where Ven 's charm came naturally , Lubor was laying it on with a trowel . |
| 23 | Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table . |
| 24 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |
| 25 | The start of the second half promised an exciting come back after Whelan scored , but it was n't to be : Leeds ' play became increasingly frenetic and desperate , and Sunderland players kept going over like someone in the crowd was working them over with a machine gun . |
| 26 | Someone had dropped jelly on an expensive rug and she was attacking it forcefully with a brush to relieve her feelings when the bristles came in contact with a pair of smart leather shoes . |
| 27 | All I did was turn me back for a minute and it was . |