Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were merely describing what the book was about . |
| 2 | Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers , the Finns were doing very well at any rate , and how mean Charles 's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave . |
| 3 | But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected . |
| 4 | The Wall Street Journal has called their bluff and finds that 12 of the 31 analysts that track IBM had buy recommendations on the stock on September 1 — and even after details of all the new cuts came out , only three had an outright sell recommendation on the stock , and last Tuesday morning , some were still rating it a buy . |
| 5 | Little did he know that the experienced dealers were about to teach him a lesson . |
| 6 | I feel sure they were about to offer you a partnership . ’ |
| 7 | It was with tears of joy in his eyes , that Felix went forward to meet the torchbearers , who by their chants were evidently proclaiming him the hero of the hour . |
| 8 | ‘ As is whether you were actually telling me the truth , or lying . |
| 9 | While she was ponderously explaining what an LOA presentation was , they could n't probe at him . |
| 10 | She laughed , but he was only telling her the truth . |
| 11 | He knew that Alain was a fair fighter and that he was only doing what every driver does , taking advantage of his superiority in performance . |
| 12 | I was only giving you an example . |
| 13 | He was posted first to Reading , and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . |
| 14 | He was already handing her the piece of paper which certified that she was in good health and not suffering from any infectious disease . |
| 15 | The weight of the matching necklace was already giving her a headache . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I was just thinking what a pity it is that all good-looking men are such beasts , ’ she said , with more real feeling than she intended . |
| 17 | It was just costing them a lot of money in phone calls and train tickets to London . |
| 18 | Right the rest of them I do n't really want to go through it too much because that 's that was just to show you an example . |
| 19 | My separatist friends said I was selling out , and taking on the role of mother was just doing what the patriarchy had trained me for . |
| 20 | Morris suddenly felt tired ; the doctored wine was not giving him the uplift he needed . |
| 21 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 22 | Robinson was still giving him the low-down on life in Whitely when the key rattled in the door again and it opened to admit Rod Porter . |
| 23 | His sojourn in the car was simply to assure himself the messenger boy responded to the given description and had not been followed . |
| 24 | He was n't trying to give her false hope but was simply telling her the truth . |
| 25 | He was surely telling her the truth , surely , with that playful-sounding promise of a comedy about the Wall . |
| 26 | Scherk died in tragic circumstances ( he suffered from diabetes and went into a coma when no one was around to give him an injection of insulin ) . |
| 27 | He was n't paying her a compliment . |
| 28 | ‘ OK , maybe I was n't doing him a service . |
| 29 | By five o'clock , just as Merrill was about to call it a day , she was offered the lease on a small flat in a pleasant , tree-lined avenue . |
| 30 | She cultivated the kind of aloofness that Robert had observed in certain classes of minor official — he had the constant impression she was about to refuse him a visa . |