Example sentences of "[was/were] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't know their church had bin taken over an' wuz bein' used by the Triads , as a front fer a major drugs operation . |
| 2 | Anyway , we had cleared nearly everything , only the tops of the trees were there , left to rotten and they were been dropped on the bushes . |
| 3 | The father , for reasons put forward by Miss McCreath connected with his own situation and his wish to as it were be forgiven for his past behaviour , and in the hopes of showing that he can in the future notwithstanding his past behaviour be contemplated as somebody to play a röle in the life of his children , supports the making of an interim care order or does not oppose it because he acknowledges that there should be supervision by the plaintiffs . |
| 4 | Er it would be some of the bodies I think oh er wait a minute I 'm trying to think what the casting were be used for there were other things besides locks you see I forget what they the , I know they used to do the castings and the brass castings it would be for the locks , for the locks yeah |
| 5 | Talks between Russian officials and a high-level delegation led by the foreign secretary J. N. Dixit , who arrived in Moscow on Feb. 13 , ended with the signing of a bilateral trade agreement under which goods exchanged were be valued in dollars but paid for in rupees , pending a settlement of the rupee-rouble exchange rate . |
| 6 | I think mo a lot of the points I wanted to make were were covered by Professor Lock but I would just draw the panel 's attention to erm the policy that was rejected . |
| 7 | True , they were were taken in the heady surrounding of St Tropez , where every girl takes 'em off , and where Fergie and Johnny and Bea and Eugenie were staying in a modest £450,000 terracotta pink villa . |
| 8 | All those kind of things were were seemed to be ideas that were were floating around round about that time . |
| 9 | I think the worst of all locations would be a , would be one where the new settlement would be catering for the needs of Leeds , if it were were located along the A sixty four corridor , South South South of York . |
| 10 | But of course , if you go back far enough do you see on these four in hands were were going from town to town were n't they ? |
| 11 | The it was halted there , and er all the barrels of ale were were were were rolled off , we were rolled off the vehicle . |
| 12 | If we were n't being drilled we were being marched to meals , to classes , to talks . |
| 13 | By the late 1980s regular trainloads were being dispatched from purpose-built transfer terminals in Greater London , Manchester and Avon , and these would soon be joined by a new flow from Edinburgh . |
| 14 | They were concerned about the implications of what influences were being exerted in their island society . |
| 15 | IT was the morning after the night before in Fiji and dark glasses were being donned by many participants in the weekend 's sevens tournament . |
| 16 | However , she was able to judge the sounds that were being mouthed by faces in photographs , and showed other evidence of normal lip-reading abilities . |
| 17 | Rescue operations were being hampered by severe winter weather and the death toll was expected to soar . |
| 18 | On the same day it was reported that efforts to impose the state of emergency regulations were being hampered by mass civil disobedience , with demonstrations and road blocks slowing the movement of the newly arrived military units from airfields at Yevlakh and Gendzhe ( Azerbaijan 's second largest city , formerly Kirovabad ; it had been given back its pre-Soviet name on Dec. 30 ) . |
| 19 | Asquith 's reform had been presented as an interim measure and the preamble to his Bill stated that the Lords " powers were being curtailed pending the introduction of a reform of their composition . |
| 20 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 21 | High above Miles 's head , beyond the terminus bubble , the Bridge itself was trembling ; it was becoming more difficult to see , as if something were being called into shape around the central shaft . |
| 22 | The government estimates that an additional 11,250 reports will be required each year , on top of the 250,000 or so social inquiry reports that were being called for in the years preceding the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 23 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 24 | And another at the 15th , a hole where so many second shots were being tossed by the angry wind over the clifftop . |
| 25 | As the first turfs for Hinkley A power station were being dug in early 1958 , an unnamed correspondent in The Times reported how a stretch of countryside that had inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge 150 years before was about to savour the fruits of ‘ the atom age ’ : |
| 26 | On one occasion the group were being asked about their thoughts on the question of how pupils who disrupt lessons by walking out should be disciplined . |
| 27 | As 18 bewildered , yet relieved Bosnian refugees made the best of their new physical conditions in Kettring , questions were being asked about their mental well-being . |
| 28 | After lunch we walked around the town and marvelled at the prices which were being asked for some of the antique furniture . |
| 29 | It was not only the female compositors who were being asked for support . |
| 30 | It was stressed to parents that the questions were being asked with the full co-operation of the headteacher and staff and with the express aim of making the experience in this particular nursery the best it could be for the children . |