Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 2 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 3 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 4 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 5 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 6 | And he could have , he could have , because , then we were importing about three quarters of our food from overseas , there was depression all the time in the thirties , and we were n't growing anything near the amount of food that we needed . |
| 7 | Even when they were nt winning anything except the occasional FA Cup there was hype . |
| 8 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 9 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 10 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 11 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 12 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 13 | ‘ I was n't suggesting anything of the sort , ’ Shae returned evenly . |
| 14 | When he wrenched his back he was n't doing anything in the house , when he wrenched his back all he was doing was lifting the carton of the back seat of the car . |
| 15 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |