Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient . |
| 3 | Unfortunately within eight months he was dead , being buried at the Parish Church on 1st October . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is nonetheless evident from her poetry that at different times she was visited by aspiring poets and dramatists . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But within 12 hours she was dead . |
| 12 | Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In medieval times it was one of the largest in England . |
| 21 | Yet in medieval times it was an abundant bird , a useful scavenger in the streets of towns . |
| 22 | In medieval times it was merely an alternative to the already existing Great Northern Road . |
| 23 | Pisistratus had made Eleusis a symbol of the unity of Attica ; for the fifth-century Athenians it was that , and a symbol of Athens ' rule over a united Aegean as well . |
| 24 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 25 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 26 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 27 | After a few minutes it was the same inside . |
| 28 | In a few minutes it was all over . |
| 29 | After a heart-stopping few minutes it was realized that it could be just squeezed through with about three-quarters of an inch to spare . |
| 30 | Gaining height rapidly , heading east , after a few minutes it was enveloped by clouds and lost to view . ’ |