Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands . |
| 2 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 3 | Or if she was looking older , if she had changed at all . |
| 4 | The Workers ' Birth Control Group was anxious to show that women were not going to renege on motherhood if they were permitted easier access to birth control information : ‘ the committee of this organisation consists of married women who have children , and they are not in any way out to say it is a good thing not to have children ’ . |
| 5 | And as the disease progressed , all the anxieties became more difficult to ignore — necessarily , because I was growing older and , in my regressive , pre-pubertal state , more of an anomaly than ever among my peers . |
| 6 | ‘ Franca , girl , forgive me for walking in , I had the key , remember , from when you gave it to me when I was staying here when I was getting better . |
| 7 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 8 | We were on holiday in the Aegean when I was getting better from this talking thing and she was reading Crime and Punishment , and I used to watch her toes and wonder which part she had got to . |
| 9 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 10 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 11 | Keeping the best for last , as I was saying earlier ? |
| 12 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 13 | I was sweating now even though it was getting cooler . |
| 14 | Though it was getting harder to keep down . |
| 15 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |