Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So I was selected as company runner , which meant that I was also a kind of servant , I forget the word … ’
2 So I was wondering whether FACE readers would write to me to help me with my research .
3 I thought perhaps he was smoking and reading .
4 So it was decided that Oliver would help Sikes with the robbery in two days ' time .
5 And if by doing so it was to ensure that people who are already resident in this area are driven , this would be a totally inadequate response to the needs of the people of North Yorkshire .
6 Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war .
7 But generally it was felt that mothers could be relied upon to exert themselves on behalf of their children and that mismanagement resulted more from ignorance than from vice .
8 During the inter-war period what trade union support there was for family allowances ( generally it was feared that allowances would lead to a wholesale reduction in wages and reduce the bargaining power of male workers ) , was based on the hope that they would lead to a withdrawal of married women from the workforce .
9 But yesterday it was revealed that lawyers for the survivors , victims ' families , the airline , Boeing and three companies that made the engines have agreed payments will not be restricted .
10 Yesterday it was revealed that PC Hall escaped death by a whisker when he was shot at point-blank range .
11 Also it was hoped that investors ( eg pension funds ) would put their money into property for letting , assured of a reasonable return .
12 It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back .
13 Eight months later it was announced that Nagy and his colleagues were to be rehabilitated .
14 Four days later it was announced that Tsedenbal had been stripped of his membership of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League .
15 It transpired that Peter Carrington and his Foreign Office team of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce had all resigned , and a little later it was announced that Francis Pym was to take over as Foreign Secretary .
16 Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste .
17 , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset .
18 So this two bedroomed apartment in a hotel complex had been borrowed from some golfing friend of Mike 's , and here she was to stay until Mike could get her back home to London .
19 Today it was closed as news of the death spread among the people of Oldbrook
20 Well it was understood that Bisses got most of theirs from restaurants , and all restaurants I think had to sort of hand over all their waste for the war or something .
21 Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen .
22 Then it was arranged that Hoare should on the way spend a day or so in Paris talking to Laval , who was temporarily Prime Minister as well as Foreign Minister of France .
23 Then it was discovered that birds such as pigeons and swifts have difficulty navigating if their sense of smell is damaged .
24 Then it was rumoured that Haj Amin al-Husseini , the Grand Mufti , was travelling from his postwar sanctuary in Lebanon to Acre and there was an ambush at Insherah on the bus believed to be carrying him .
25 Then it was agreed that Mrs Kemp would deal with all new cases .
26 By then it was agreed that Karen would do temporary work until she came to Hillmarden House in November .
27 After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air .
28 Recently it was believed that morale had declined and that only firm Soviet and North Korean police rule was preventing defections .
29 Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime .
30 Occasionally it was conceded that New York had elements of sophistication but it was widely appreciated that film tastes and standards were determined in the populous and philistine Midwest .
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