Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children who were pushed in were the ones useless to their families , the backward and the troublesome , just the poor little wretches to provoke barbaric jokes and kicks and blows . |
| 2 | ‘ The way you were treated by the teachers if you were staying on was a lot different than if you were leaving . |
| 3 | The track I was parked on was a back way into the village of Broughton Street and , as the crow flew , a quicker way than coming around by Blackberry Hill . |
| 4 | The cold smooth thing I was sitting on was a beer keg , which explained why my bum hurt as well . |
| 5 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |