Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Carey added : ‘ You were so keen to have your own way with her that you disregarded the fact that you could have made her pregnant . ’ |
| 2 | It has appeared to me , through all the seclusion of my life & the narrow experience it admitted of , that in nothing , men — & women too ! — were so apt to mistake their own feelings , as in this one thing . |
| 3 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 4 | A further claim for , inter alia , unlawful means conspiracy was brought against Company B but it was not alleged that the predominant purpose of the conspiracy was to injure the plaintiffs since the defendants were obviously concerned to protect their own position . |
| 5 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 6 | The men whom Nithard terms the " sharers of Charles 's counsels " included some magnates of first-rank importance who were clearly willing to stake their own futures on Charles 's success . |
| 7 | The Saudis were also anxious to acquire their own AWACS aircraft , their own KC-10 in-flight refuelling aircraft and the Stinger SA missile , once again a red rag to the Israeli bull . |
| 8 | It was as if , having seen the contents of Mr Broadhurst 's fitted cupboard , he were now prepared to allow me some knowledge of the rituals connected with this apparatus . |
| 9 | This sounded entirely in character , and believing that the said Armstrongs were well able to find their own way back to Eskdale and look after themselves , Douglas ordered onward progress . |
| 10 | Political connections were often the principal criterion suggested to justify the promotion of an officer of excise , and some of them were quite ready to employ their own votes to advance their careers so long as this was permitted by Parliament . |
| 11 | By the end of 1935 they were quite prepared to abandon their former ILP allies in the hope of gaining influence with the 400,000 individua1 members of the Labour Party . |
| 12 | Fieldhouse drives the point home when he argues that ‘ between 1945 and 1951 Britain exploited those dependencies that were politically unable to defend their own interests in more ways and with more serious consequences than at any time since overseas colonies were established ’ . |
| 13 | After lunch , it was decided to harness two Shetland ponies to a dog cart and give all the children who were too small to manage their own mounts a ride around the park . |
| 14 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 15 | Working as a teacher , he was always able to choose his own subjects . |
| 16 | It was always easier to say what such a school should not be , rather than what it should be . |
| 17 | Taking the belt and feeling the weight of it , Sam was hardly able to believe his own eyes . |
| 18 | it was hardly fair to tar them all with Tony 's brush . |
| 19 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 20 | It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’ |
| 21 | With the estates came the service of the existing duchy officials , but the queen was also able to establish her own connection there , and several of her servants and kinsmen were subsequently rewarded from the duchy . |
| 22 | With the estates came the service of the existing duchy officials , but the queen was also able to establish her own connection there , and several of her servants and kinsmen were subsequently rewarded from the duchy . |
| 23 | You know I think he was fairly crucial to keep us all together . |
| 24 | From St Paul 's Cathedral to Putney Vale Crematorium did not seem such a short distance to the neighbours , such was their generous enthusiasm for Donald 's interment , and when they heard there were plans for a memorial service at Wimbledon Parish Church , some people said it was even better to do it this way . |
| 25 | Life was marching up such a strange road that it was sometimes hard to take it all in . |
| 26 | More and more gliders were being produced all the time and it was quite impracticable to house them all in hangars , so they stood endlessly around the edges of airfields in the rain , waiting for an invasion which might come this year or might come next . |
| 27 | The court was quite prepared to introduce its own qualifications to the First Amendment . |
| 28 | Though when she might have let him know that she was quite able to make her own decisions , thank you very much , she remembered — she still wanted that interview with him . |
| 29 | Prost built up a solid lead of 28 seconds before he pitted and was then able to run his own race to the chequered flag with most excitement focused on the battle for second between Senna and the surging Schumacher . |
| 30 | Having avidly watched the US Open and then The Open on BBC , I was again disappointed to see what little imagination went into the BBC production when compared to the rival production from America . |