Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solid ground rocked and heaved beneath us , but we were soon gorging ourselves on rich noodles and spicy chilled crabs and lobster — forbidden fruit while amongst our Islamic Bugis . |
| 2 | Giant trees were soon surrounding him on all sides and their branches made an almost solid roof high above his head , blotting out the sky . |
| 3 | We both know that if you were ever to find yourself in such an influential position , my sister 's inheritance would not long remain her own . ’ |
| 4 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 5 | The leaders of Britain 's main christian churches were there to greet her in this first city church devoted to united worship . |
| 6 | In 1923 he began to study economic theory and became convinced that government objectives , far from ensuring a return to prosperity , were actively discouraging it through deflationary policies and obsession with the return to the gold standard at pre-war parity . |
| 7 | ‘ I was rather hoping something like this would happen , actually . |
| 8 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 9 | Britain was soon devoting something like half its national product to the war , a massive shift of resources , unthinkable in peacetime . |
| 10 | Coleridge was not only a willing listener to Southey 's ideas , but was soon developing them into grand and Utopian principles during long hours spent in Oxford ‘ disputing on metaphysical subjects ’ . |
| 11 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 13 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 14 | Months later he was to admit : ‘ Do n't you realize , Jim , I was just egging you on all the time ? |
| 15 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 16 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |
| 17 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 18 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 19 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 20 | He was still watching her with that professional expression on his face . |
| 21 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 22 | Even so , Faldo , with a 71 , still finished top European , overtaking Ian Woosnam , who had shared the lead after two rounds and was still sharing it after three holes in the third on Saturday when a storm interrupted play for three hours . |
| 23 | 4 ) ‘ My daughter met any other child at playgroup with a resounding thump if they touched ‘ her toy ’ ( because I think her older brother was still treating her to this type of jealousy at home ) . |
| 24 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 25 | But I knew what was really worrying her at that moment . |
| 26 | When linguists became involved , with a few notable exceptions , it was mainly to distance themselves from this current of ideas and to introduce the second phase . |
| 27 | She knew he had killed one of her countrymen the previous evening , and she supposed he was now preparing himself for all the others he would fight . |
| 28 | Tim Waterstone declined to expound on the decision , beyond saying that Waterstones had withdrawn from the concession for commercial reasons and was now re-entering it for commercial reasons . |
| 29 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 30 | One interesting reaction was that in stating , for example , that science should be taught to all pupils in some form or other in the last two years of schooling for 10–20 per cent of the time ( in addition to a broad course up to age 13 years ) , the DES was implicitly committing itself to increased resources , in terms of teachers and facilities . |