Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe had fought the French for over twenty years , yet he had never seen the Emperor and , all unbidden , a sudden and childish image of a man with cloven tail , sharp horns and demonic fangs stalked Sharpe 's fears that were made worse by the Emperor 's real reputation as a soldier of genius whose presence on a battlefield was worth a whole corps of men . |
| 2 | During its short life Gandalf 's Garden evolved a style which made It , Oz , and the others that were to come later models of detachment and worldliness . |
| 3 | Such an aspiration prevailed among some geographers at least partly unaware of first , the revival of interest in human activity ; secondly , the focus in physical geography research upon the magnitude of human impact ; and thirdly , the hazard research that was facilitating closer links between physical and human geography although these links did not impress Johnston ( 1983c ) . |
| 4 | The vortex had tightened into a spiral that was winding tighter and tighter . |
| 5 | Paul could hear , intermittently , the resonance of his voice through the noise in the throat of the wind , and the roar from the shore that was becoming louder and louder . |
| 6 | I was left on a piece of ice that was becoming smaller all the time . |
| 7 | Helen Martini joined the call that was growing louder and stronger for a full judicial inquiry . |
| 8 | He had tuberculosis and was getting better slowly . |
| 9 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 10 | The third moved to a house which was not supported by the Special Development Team but where the home leader had been trained by the team and was receiving further training at the University . |
| 11 | The empire was in a state of decline which had begun with the havoc wrought in 1204 by the Fourth Crusade and was made worse by internal conflicts . |
| 12 | I was making two or three a year and was feeling worse and worse . |
| 13 | but as were getting older we find |
| 14 | As was said ealier in this discussion , championship teams do n't sell their class players or they make an effort to hang on to them anyway . |