Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was astonished when I was told they did n't want anyone from Scotland for they were only taking on Irish staff . |
| 2 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 3 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 4 | Officers were yesterday carrying out house-to-house inquiries near the building in Hanley , Stoke . |
| 5 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 6 | They were forever breaking up each other 's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting . |
| 7 | I and in Glasgow and we attempted to break some of the barriers you 're talking about by holding a girl 's week and part of the girl 's was to run a five-a-side tournament and we were also breaking down territorial barriers , we had girls from different housing schemes within the east end of Glasgow , but I feel the opportunities do n't exist ! |
| 8 | For Youth Allyah , who were now sending over more children on transit visas , foster homes , even orthodox foster homes , could not inspire the full-blooded commitment to a pioneering life in Palestine . |
| 9 | Once the security of the industry was assured there was every incentive for the comedians to experiment , for comedy relied on movement , gesture , and illusion whilst photography and editing were now opening up all kinds of new possibilities . |
| 10 | Me and Jo were well split up last night ! |
| 11 | Several churches were structurally redesigned along Arminian lines during the 1630s ; the Arminian cleric and poet , George Herbert , supervised the restoration of the ruined church at Leighton Bromswold near Huntingdon , and Abbey Dore church in Herefordshire was restored by a local landowner , Viscount Scudamore , who commissioned a new oak roof and screen . |
| 12 | Around the château itself were neatly laid out formal gardens with mature trees , age-old fountains and sweet smelling bushes as well as a neglected , sunken , walled garden . |
| 13 | Groups were continually dividing over minor points of doctrine . |
| 14 | I missed his semi-erect dick , because I was furiously scribbling down detailed descriptions of his buttocks , but only a severely learning-impaired person would consider the character he is playing to be representative of normality . |
| 15 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 16 | Damian Flint was obviously picking up chairman-of-the-board points at a rate that defied imagination . |
| 17 | She took the kitten in its little cardboard box to the bedroom and was constantly getting up all night , peering at the tiny bundle of black fur . |
| 18 | The team was only set up 3 years ago when the rink was built and is now ranked 13th in the country . |
| 19 | On the grimmer side , the national health service , which only weeks ago was apparently closing down vital wards , said this week that it was fully prepared to look after thousands of war casualties . |
| 20 | Bail arm over , wind down , strike and Rick was soon playing out another cat towards the waiting net . |
| 21 | ‘ Hello , Dave , ’ he said , ‘ 1 was just boiling up some water for a shave . ’ |
| 22 | Well , that , that was just to take down one reel of wall paper on . |
| 23 | that the reason he did n't sleep was because the fact that he was just sitting around all day . |
| 24 | Pipe was yesterday mulling over future plans for Miinnehoma following the gelding 's shock defeat at Chepstow on Saturday . |
| 25 | Just what constitutes time-wasting is a matter for the referee 's discretion , and if Tyson felt that Southall was deliberately using up precious seconds he was entitled to award Forest that crucial free-kick . |
| 26 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 27 | In Burgess Hill , a Miss Mary Hare had started a private school which was producing many academic successes , and the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's school at Northampton , now being run by Frederick Ince-Jones , was still turning out large numbers of academic successes . |
| 28 | King Vidor showed with The Champ that he was very much at home in what Hollywood was now establishing as ‘ the city ’ but not surprisingly he was also taking up other challenges . |
| 29 | This division was well laid out many years ago in a Ministry of Health memorandum issued with HM(65)77 , the needs of the two categories of elderly people being quite different . |
| 30 | Before the offshore operation was officially closed down last week , Scott Lithgow had established a reputation for completing contracts on schedule . |