Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously I was learning new things all the time and each day we built on what we had learned the day before . |
| 2 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 3 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 4 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 5 | Jed drove north to begin with , his wrist a rectangle of heat and all that numbness just behind his eyes , but after two days the roads drew him inland , over high mountains , and soon he was heading due west . |
| 6 | and like she was pointing different things out about this cemetery , and , I mean , you know , you there ca n't be many cemeteries |
| 7 | The chairman of the committee , Mr Robert Sheldon , said yesterday he was awaiting detailed answers from the DTI to questions posed on Monday during his committee 's examination of its permanent secretary . |
| 8 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 9 | later he was fed minute amounts of donor milk from the milk bank by a nasal-gastric tube , just 1ml an hour at first . |
| 10 | Three months later he was crowned German King at Bonn . |
| 11 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 12 | But he was a a reformed now he was helping other people ge get away from pinching cars like in a they have like |
| 13 | Yeah well she was saying other day she 's he 's never away from her he 's a damn nuisance ! |
| 14 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 15 | It was hardship in this , that er , perhaps the hardest time came after it when er , well it was called public assistance then , social security payments had to be payed back . |
| 16 | Yes , a fortnight ago he was appointed chief art advisor for Devon |
| 17 | I have remarked on its dominance in Oxford English , and a generation ago it was given magisterial expression in Northrop Frye 's Anatomy of Criticism , which aspired to a ‘ scientific ’ criticism where there would be no place for evaluation , since it is not nobler to study stars than earthworms . |
| 18 | One minute there you were asking casual questions about arsenic and the next there was your wife throwing up and having her hair fall out . |
| 19 | All thought the blueprint had n't worked ; at least one was contemplating legal action . |
| 20 | And then he was singing Frere Jaques right and I did n't know the words to it so I just sorry I ca n't remember the words and he goes . |
| 21 | When I was a child he was selling insurance , then he was offloading imported sheepskin coats in the London street markets , then it was free range eggs . |
| 22 | And then he was saying different things like he said er you know say , well w we were in . |
| 23 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |
| 24 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |