Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 2 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 3 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
| 4 | There was that chap that was sacked up the country was n't he ? |
| 5 | But it was the music that was bringing in the advertising , and maybe the extra readers . |
| 6 | He walked as far as the cart , took a packet of cigarettes from his jacket that was hanging on the tailgate and stood , sullenly smoking . |
| 7 | Like to catch something that was hanging on the tree , no one would catch it and hang there . |
| 8 | Er we used to have the the works magazine that was come out every month . |
| 9 | In the Joint Committee that was set up the conflict was , in Hanrott 's words , ‘ played cool ’ , but it was conflict nevertheless . |
| 10 | Victoria has slipped from that part of the head where pressing thoughts gather , taking with her a lot of the baggage that was cluttering up the hallways . |
| 11 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 12 | I accidentally spilt some soft drink on the bench where we had lunch , and in a minute a dozen skinks had homed in and were lapping up the liquid . |
| 13 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 14 | Mrs Crumwallis and Mrs Garfitt had run from the serving table and were standing over a boy . |
| 15 | At the height of the violence in the early hours of the morning at Wymott jail in Leyland , Lancashire , about 400 rioters had seized control and were smashing up the jail . |
| 16 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 17 | Somehow the virtual reality had overflowed the confines of that simulated chamber , and was taking over the entire broadcast . |
| 18 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 19 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 20 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 21 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 22 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 23 | He says : ‘ I wanted to sign them both and was sorting out the work permit side of it when I was dismissed . |
| 24 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 25 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 26 | A moment later he had returned , and was holding out a balloon glass containing an inch of brandy towards her . |
| 27 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 28 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 29 | She had been making a cup of coffee and was leaning over a lit ring on the gas cooker to put the kettle on . |
| 30 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |