Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winners , for example , will collect only around £5,000 less than the £30,000 total prize money that was on offer for the sub-continent 's 1987 World Cup , which is doubtless why Australia and the West Indies were eventually persuaded to join the party after originally blowing it a loud raspberry . |
| 2 | The fact that a Marine battalion from Basilan and a police unit from Leyte were eventually used to confront the rebels , also suggested that the government lacked confidence in the reliability of the local units based in Mindanao . |
| 3 | ‘ I think we were all going to pay the price for that ’ , said a member of one of Perth 's oldest families . |
| 4 | The new measures were apparently designed to show the administration 's determination to curb state spending , encourage more private investment and accelerate the sale of government assets . |
| 5 | The children were only allowed to open the present she indicated and only after she had looked at her watch to give the go-ahead to tear the paper off ‘ It was completely mad , ’ says Charles . |
| 6 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 7 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 8 | She had already explained the full landing procedures , the control of the plane by power and rudder , the way the ailerons were only used to hold the plane level . |
| 9 | Such men and women were only permitted to enter the Temple after they had purified themselves in a special ritual bath , a specifically constructed natural gathering of water . |
| 10 | TWO bosses were so determined to beat the recession they slashed their pay to half that of the firm 's teenage trainee . |
| 11 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 12 | Authors were generally allowed to use the coppers if they later published their work in a book . |
| 13 | Someone from the Vienna art gallery arrived to take a death mask , and crowds of people were soon queuing to view the body , which was laid on a bier in a black suit with a cowl over its head . |
| 14 | Wenner and Jagger were finally deciding to kill the paper . |
| 15 | Thus both in the League of Youth and in the expanding local parties , the Left was able to feed on resentment against organizational restrictions which were largely designed to prevent the expansion of the Left within the Labour Party . |
| 16 | ‘ We were told just how important the target was as the Germans were desperately trying to contain the Anzio beachhead . |
| 17 | Please remember in these early days — and I am talking before we really started the bomber offensive — we were just trying to halt the mass of Germans who were rolling through Holland and Belgium . |
| 18 | At two-thirty , Patrice , Sarah , Catriona and the boys were just starting to tackle the clearing-up . |
| 19 | A few fields were just starting to leaven the bricks and mortar , but were mostly full of thistles , earmarked for building . |
| 20 | ‘ We were just going to ring the police , ’ Bedelia said . |
| 21 | Well , we 've met the guy who lives up above us , because he jumped out of bed , they 've got french windows like we have , up above there , and he jumped out , and we were just sitting watching the telly or something , we heard these footsteps like going across the ceiling , it 's as though we could see 'em , cos we could sort of hear it and feel it . |
| 22 | ‘ I am so glad , ’ wrote Felicity three months later , when the meadows were golden with cowslips and bluebells were already beginning to displace the primroses in the woods , ‘ to hear that ‘ Factota ’ is such a success . |
| 23 | Our decision to give the assessors that responsibility reflects the views put to us during the consultation which persuaded us that they were best placed to undertake the work and to do the job well within the timetable allowed . |
| 24 | All samples were directly measured using the aggregation of washed rabbit platelets . |
| 25 | Newcastle were always striving to keep the ball by those machine-like movements which only the cleverest exponents of the short-passing game can exhibit . |
| 26 | ST HELENS were yesterday trying to unravel the mystery of the sudden re-appearance of their stayaway Welshman Stuart Evans — in French Rugby Union ! |
| 27 | Insurers were yesterday starting to count the cost of the storms as driving rain finally turned to showers — and even snow in parts of Wales . |
| 28 | He immediately flew to Perth in an attempt to begin his defence and boost the morale of his remarkably loyal employees , who were yesterday attempting to portray the receivership move as a battle between ‘ old money ’ , represented by the Melbourne banking community , and ‘ new money ’ , in the form of Mr Bond . |
| 29 | We went across a large lake and then took a hike up a trail to see some old steam engines and lots of parts strewn about ; the trains were once used to transport the logs . |
| 30 | When I was working at a Polytechnic , we were once required to submit the areas of current research interest for storage on central records . |