Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination . |
| 2 | Anyone would think someone was standing behind you with a gun . ’ |
| 3 | Roxburgh 's point on the subject of Ferguson 's fledgling status was well made , too , but even he finished up with the impression that nobody was listening to him at yesterday 's press conference . |
| 4 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 5 | I s I heard something about somebody was talking to me about it a little while ago . |
| 6 | Su'a received the third lbw of the match to which one could raise an eyebrow — this one was coming across him from a suspiciously sharp angle as DeFreitas bowled round the wicket and wide out . |
| 7 | That one was taken for us at Kristof Laszlo 's studio — you 'd have to ask him about it . ’ |
| 8 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 9 | Nothing was entered by anyone under the fifth , ‘ Other ’ choice . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing was added to it until January when two separate payments of fifty pounds were made . ’ |
| 11 | Until 1960 nothing was known of it except a handful of historical references and a poem of 76 hexameter-lines in praise of the church 's founder , Anicia Juliana.The poem , which had been carved in letters 11 centimetres high on the walls of the church itself , was copied in a manuscript of the 10th century and is preserved in full in the Palatine Anthology , a medieval collection of ancient epigrams . |
| 12 | Nothing was left in it except Patrick himself and he had nothing to do now but to depart . |