Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if they had read F. Scott Fitzgerald and were acting out Crazy Sunday . |
| 2 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 3 | Finally , he rang his bell and was pulled up unharmed to the surface , where he delivered the emperor 's words to his master . |
| 4 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 5 | In addition to the Revolutionary Armed Forces , Castro was sufficiently confident of support by late 1959 to organise the formation of popular militias , and was stirring up patriotic fervour by repeated assertions of the imminence of US military action against Cuba . |
| 6 | It jerked his foot banged his knee and was yanked back open . |