Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | new liners and that in the eight hours we were on shift . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
| 3 | For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient . |
| 4 | It was n't until a week later that I was able to ring John Reeves , vicar of St Luke 's , Cranham , who later said that he was intrigued from the word go by the strange activities we were involved with when he first contacted us . |
| 5 | To find out if gastrointestinal symptoms ( and signs when present ) can accurately predict the need for specific investigations they were related to the endoscopic and colonic findings . |
| 6 | Unfortunately within eight months he was dead , being buried at the Parish Church on 1st October . |
| 7 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 8 | So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through . |
| 9 | So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through . |
| 10 | And where the electrician 's shop was wa was the stables for the horses , nice , friendly animals they were too . |
| 11 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 12 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 13 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 14 | It is nonetheless evident from her poetry that at different times she was visited by aspiring poets and dramatists . |
| 15 | Had Mr Howe and all the Lakeside opposition attended the three public meetings we were all invited and urged strongly to attend , perhaps there would not be all this dithering now . |
| 16 | Had Mr Howe and all the Lakeside opposition attended the three public meetings we were all invited and urged strongly to attend , perhaps there would not be all this dithering now . |
| 17 | In relation to residential preferences it was argued that ‘ it does seem that under conditions of national manufacturing decline , variations in residential attractiveness … have not exerted any obvious influence on manufacturing location trends at the county level , in sharp contrast to trends during the 1960s ’ ( p. 957 ) . |
| 18 | A little after 0530 hours she was 45 miles ( 72km ) from the estuary , when she crossed the tracks of the Wolfe-Mowe destroyers , sent out earlier that night to sweep for mines that the Germans thought had been laid by the British force . |
| 19 | But within 12 hours she was dead . |
| 20 | Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out . |
| 21 | Now that they were working different hours it was not so easy for him to contrive to meet her ‘ accidentally on purpose ’ as Anne privately called it . |
| 22 | After further meetings it was reported on July 20 that the Liberian government had accepted an ECOWAS peace proposal , providing for ( i ) a ceasefire ; ( ii ) the deployment of a regional peacekeeping force ; and ( iii ) the immediate formation of a government of national unity . |
| 23 | A few times she was aware that he was watching her , but managed every time to resist the temptation to look up , unsure of just what she might see in his eyes . |
| 24 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 25 | And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching |
| 26 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 27 | Repeated many times over , the words of Luhnenschloss finally came to the notice of the RSPCA last year and were used as part of further discussions it was on the point of entering into with the Jockey Club in the hope of further reform . |
| 28 | In medieval times it was one of the largest in England . |
| 29 | Yet in medieval times it was an abundant bird , a useful scavenger in the streets of towns . |
| 30 | In medieval times it was merely an alternative to the already existing Great Northern Road . |