Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible , in any case , to bath her , because they were only allowed to let out the bathwater on a falling tide . |
| 2 | Quite simply , refugee children , however gifted , were not encouraged to rise up the economic and social hierarchy . |
| 3 | They called for the temporary suspension of activities by all political parties , who were further requested to draw up a code of conduct to regulate their activities . |
| 4 | There were more abseils to get down the Wellenkuppe 's rock pitch . |
| 5 | When Sir Keith Joseph approved the rebuilding of St Augustine 's School , officers of the county council were still attempting to make out a case for the sale of the site based on their assessment of demand for places . |
| 6 | But they were also to swear to root out every remnant of the old religion . |
| 7 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 8 | The earlier of these were probably intended to fill out the unused space at the end of the longer pieces ( Bach was a great paper magpie ) , while the later ones ( notably the prelude on ‘ Jesus Christus unser Heiland ’ ) were conceived on a much more generous scale . |
| 9 | They were probably trying to blow up the bridge . |
| 10 | By not giving this to Athena , the Athenians were tactfully declining to cream off the best for the national goddess , thereby showing that all tribute that was collected was needed for utilitarian purposes . |
| 11 | PEOPLE from the Lisburn area were today urged to keep up the fight to safeguard Lagan Valley Hospital 's acute status . |
| 12 | But you were n't allowed to come out the pit , I mean you had to wait until knocking off time you see , before you were come out , Anything like that I mean er unless you 've got broken legs or anything like that . |
| 13 | Subjects were then asked to carry out the following manoeuvres : ( 1 ) maximum voluntary contraction of the sphincter for 20 seconds ; ( 2 ) strain as if to defecate for at least five seconds ; and ( 3 ) increase intra-abdominal pressure by forcibly expiring against a resistance ( blowing up a party baloon ) . |
| 14 | Considerable efforts were then made to clean out the system but not to inform the public . |
| 15 | Orders in Council were then passed setting out the conditions for participation in the fund . |
| 16 | Chelmsford Pest Control service technicians Ron Long and Danny O'Mara were recently asked to carry out a fly treatment at a water treatment plant . |
| 17 | All four were ideally qualified to check out the lie of the land as they are surveyors in the company 's Knightsbridge office . |
| 18 | The pursuit and creation of stars , for example , occupies a large part of the story that A Scott Berg has to tell : Goldwyn was constantly trying to sign up the human properties who would ensure the success of his pictures . |
| 19 | Few can afford those sorts of funds : Maxwell was finally forced to close down the London Daily News in 1987 in the face of mounting costs . |
| 20 | Sometimes , when we got back rather later than usual , my father was already preparing to send out a search party in — as I thought then , not knowing about Grandma 's lapses — his usual agitated way . |
| 21 | He was laboriously attempting to sort out the financial details of the scheme he had put to Christian . |
| 22 | Maybe she was just trying to cover up the fact that she minds about my being illegitimate . ’ |
| 23 | erm a couple of weeks ago two came in and I said ‘ Oh , I was just going to lock up the screen ’ . |
| 24 | I was just going to wash up the kettle when you came in . |
| 25 | Miranda was just going to climb up the Magician 's leg , when she heard a deep voice say , ‘ What are you doing in Puddle Lane ? |
| 26 | Portsmouth manager Jim Smith was yesterday preparing to hold off a bid from Nottingham Forest for £1.5 million rated striker Guy Whittingham . |
| 27 | Nothing was ever going to wipe out the memory of tonight . |
| 28 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 29 | Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , himself Polish-born , had once commented that " Poles suck in anti-Semitism with their mothers ' milk " , and a main purpose of Walesa 's visit was to ease the strains between the two countries centring on enduring Polish anti-Semitism ; Walesa himself was still trying to live down the controversy caused by a statement during his 1990 presidential campaign that he was " clean " because his family had no Jewish blood . |
| 30 | The Villa boss was still trying to pick up the pieces after his side 's shock exit from the Coca-Cola Cup in Tuesday night 's fourth round replay at Ipswich . |