Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [coord] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the spread of trolleybus conversions across West and North London all the older ex-L.C.C. and ex-Metropolitan types of car were scrapped and everything from the London UniteD Tramways was scrapped except the Feltham type modern cars . |
| 2 | At Lockleys , Herts. , for example , six types of stone foreign to the locality were recorded but none of these was used in the pavement of room 2 . |
| 3 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 4 | In Newham the picture was more complex , though not dissimilar , with the project tending at one year to be supporting people living on their own whose dementia was advanced or who for other reasons could not manage their own care , or needed some safeguarding care . |
| 5 | Where the middle contract was overpriced , relative to the near contract , one middle contract was sold and one near contract purchased . |
| 6 | Then a dreadful thing happened , or so I heard , for they had left the farm by then , ; the poor Rector — I expect it was his own doing , for they say he drank far too much — set fire to himself in bed one night , and the house was burnt and he with it . |