Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she was goin' to put up with the wee 'un 's fancy talk and fancy ways , she did n't know . |
| 2 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 3 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 4 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 5 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 6 | Androgyny was expect to go along with a broad , flexible and effective repertoire of behaviours , and well-adjusted emotions . |
| 7 | It took a moment for the full enormity of what was happening to filter through to the brandy-drenched consciousness of the member reading The Times . |
| 8 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 9 | Jess wondered uncomfortably whether she was expected to move out of the way and let the old ditherer through , or side with the Law and her own interests . |
| 10 | The USA had previously been opposed to such involuntary repatriation , as had the Vietnamese government , but the latter was expected to go along with the initiative , given its current desire to restore diplomatic relations with the USA . |
| 11 | The good news was he was expected to show up with a large coke consignment for processing , cutting and distributing ; the bad news was he would now not come near the place . |
| 12 | Sun was expected to line up alongside the rest of the takers , but did n't complete negotiations in time . |
| 13 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 14 | A woman with a blond plait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness . |
| 15 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 16 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 17 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
| 18 | On , a strange dog was seen running out through the main gate with aforementioned chicken in his mouth and a packet of Paxo around his neck ! |
| 19 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 20 | Some through passage is also noted , particularly in November , March and April , and one was seen to fly in from the sea at Selsey Bill on 1 May 1968 . |
| 21 | Even Mervyn , whose hands were flying across the keys of his accordion , was seen to gape up towards the thing dancing like a huge firefly in the dusk . |
| 22 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 23 | Nothing eventful occurred that night , and as Hugh had not returned , and as a careful search discovered no trace of Marian and Allen , it was decided to move on with every precaution into territory which with every yard became potentially more hostile . |
| 24 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 25 | ‘ So what you ended up with was a shot of the Thal looking up , followed by a cut to a low angle close up of the trough where , by pumping up the rubber ring , the body of the monster was made to rise out of the water . |
| 26 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 27 | In the hazy conditions a bright yellow camera bag was spotted first , a few feet from the corpse , which was lodged face down between a rock and a bush . |
| 28 | Since it was essential that the moment I awoke each morning , the first words , sentences , if possible , paragraphs came readily to mind , last thing at night , instead of my prayers , my mind was instructed to grind on with the pages . |
| 29 | 20–6–1860 It was understood that Mr Sutherland intended to resign from the school at Mulindry and the Moderator was instructed to look out for a successor . |
| 30 | The first year of the new HCIMA programmes of study was shown to get off to a good start , with over 740 student enrolments . |