Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 2 | Many , indeed , had already been dispossessed , since emigrants from Germany were permitted to take with them no more than a nominal ten Reichsmarks . |
| 3 | These qualities were reserved for a small minority of disinterested intellectuals whose insights into the great tradition of literature were said to develop in them a maturity of vision . |
| 4 | They demanded the very best in everything , especially in accommodation and service and so the very best hotels in Europe were built to cater for their every whim . |
| 5 | ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’ |
| 6 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 7 | I is interesting to not how closely their perceptions of what was needed tallied with what the service providers perceived as the language skills which were needed to allow them to work effectively . |