Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 2 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 3 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 4 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 5 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 6 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 7 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 8 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |
| 9 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 10 | The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 . |