Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 2 | Farmers had suffered from both the depressing consequences of over-production and the uncertainty of what the future held for them , and ever more bewildering changes were imposed on them every year . |
| 3 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 4 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 5 | They were not authorized to sell the goods pledged to them however perishable , which meant that many vexatious and expensive lawsuits were commenced against them every day . |
| 6 | He had white hair and looked very nice , and soon they were waving to him every morning . |
| 7 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 8 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 9 | His natural talent and readiness to learn , together with irregular but extremely fruitful attendance at the Istituto di Belle Arti , were to make of him the amazing so-called ‘ painter of Old Masters ’ . |
| 10 | But that said , erm what what it what the position is , er i is that we have put into the model Well we have n't put it into the model because it was given to us a part of the model and possibly by now North Yorkshire may have the revised model , No they have n't yet . |
| 11 | It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’ |
| 12 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 13 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 14 | ‘ Tapeinosis , my dear Appleton ; be humble , be humble , ’ was said to me a score of times , and I imagine to many another student . |
| 15 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 16 | Right , so er yeah , I was looking at her a couple of cheapies in there . |
| 17 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 18 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 19 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 20 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 21 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 22 | Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him . |
| 23 | I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 24 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 25 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 26 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 27 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 28 | And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give . |
| 29 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |
| 30 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |