Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness .
2 Still having eunuchs in the choirs that was coming it a bit thick .
3 When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating .
4 Inchbad had moved across to sit beside her and had taken her hand between his finger and thumb and was exclaiming what a pretty little thing she was and it the shame of the world that her brother had had to ride of land leave her all alone .
5 It had seventeen degree courses in operation , and was setting itself a target of 6–8000 full-time student equivalents by the early 1980s .
6 Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head .
7 The family have previously written to former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker asking for information , but were left none the wiser .
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