Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pay-per-view channels were buying up exclusive rights to the really big bouts and this left the regular channels desperate to find some way of increasing the number of championship fights . |
| 2 | Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions . |
| 3 | Under the steam vents and the aluminium air shafts and the painted-over windows , kitchen porters were hosing out galvanised bins . |
| 4 | Only three miners were brought out alive . |
| 5 | Wagons were going out empty , heading for the forest . |
| 6 | Many other companies were thinking along similar lines . |
| 7 | In addition to the normal diversion of public utility services in Lasswade Road and Gilmerton Road involving the Water and Drainage Department , SSEB and British Telecom , a major diversion of overhead power lines was carried out prior to the start of the roadworks contract . |
| 8 | Things were working out fine . |
| 9 | The purpose of these ports was to spread out American naval forces so that a sneak attack could not cripple the fleet , although others suggested that their intent was actually to spread the pork as widely as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ Partial compensation ’ will delight some : the majority of items were bought up wholesale for between a hundred and a thousand roubles , and inflation makes the clearance sale easier at any rate , it would make life easier for privileged auction attendees from the State Chamber of Cultural and Natural Heritage . |
| 11 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |
| 12 | Three of the rafters were washed up unconscious on the river bank . |
| 13 | Its instructions were to buy up Polish land and estates for resale to German settlers at massively reduced prices . |
| 14 | Both of the safari buses were booked up solid for the month after that . |
| 15 | Company cars were charged a double rate and — a master stroke — cars with four or more occupants were allowed in free . |
| 16 | Between 1984 and 1990 in-depth studies of paraprofessional social service personnel were carried out on-site in Britain , India , Israel , Spain and the USA , in order to examine in more detail the trends and issues revealed by our international survey . |
| 17 | The lord had to employ labourers to chop the growth back once every year ; the same men were to fill in large holes and ruts in the highway with stones and boulders removed from flanking fields . |
| 18 | The men were carrying out top-secret research into radar , and until now the incident has been shrouded in mystery . |
| 19 | Joe walked down the length of the hut , between the beds , where here and there men were sprucing up ready to grab a few hours ’ freedom away from the camp . |
| 20 | The driving impulse was the fear of the development of a " dangerous class " in the cities where children were growing up ill disciplined and ill exampled by their parents . |
| 21 | Production was up around ten coaches , and eighty wagons were being manufactured , while an average of sixty carriage repairs were turned out weekly . |
| 22 | There was concern , however , that half of the Bracamonte Battalion 's 1,000 soldiers were to take up new posts in the army . |
| 23 | The car was parked in front of an advertising hoarding , obscuring the health warning , while young women were handing out free Camel cigarettes . |
| 24 | Visibility was about 50 yards , wind 90 knots and 35ft seas were breaking over rocky outcrops . |
| 25 | Everywhere doctors and nurses were bending over prostrate forms , and shouting orders and instructions . |
| 26 | A third of services were to take off sick crewmen . |
| 27 | Outside the kitchen door scullions were bringing out steaming chunks of bloody red meat to throw into huge casks of pickle and salt to preserve them . |