Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was suspicious because they were unloading what turned out to be stolen property at a friend 's flat . |
| 2 | Trainees at Harvard Securities were not in practice made to send out details on stocks to clients they were pitching who had n't dealt three times , as all dealers were supposed to . |
| 3 | Subsequent reflection and erm consideration of various comments that we that were received I think rightly persuaded the County Council and the district councils that in order to ensure erm a proper search and a proper consideration of all the factors , er that eight miles should be extended er to ten miles . |
| 4 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 5 | The Shah had Amir Aslan Afshar find among the Iranians in Morocco some Iranian currency for those who were returning home-they went back with more than $50,000 . |
| 6 | We were to find it repeated elsewhere over the following two weeks . |
| 7 | As Bf109s were reported they stayed well above the other squadron , but to no avail . |
| 8 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 9 | Er but we can write these with some f flexibility , and erm there is a deferred income version , where you can run it so you were say you did n't need income five years , you can run it for five years , then la then leave it erm and just take the annuity income as er as , as er regular income . |
| 10 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 11 | Therefore , new Protestant and Catholic trade unions were organised which rejected both the class war concepts and the optimistic socialist utopianism of the secular unions , with the result that three rival trade union centres were created ( Albeda , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
| 13 | When my mother met , we were met you know when we got married the solicitor had us in because he wanted us to make a will because see we did n't take the money that we got from mum . |
| 14 | The four Counsellors had skittered down the slope and were harrying him to walk more quickly . |
| 15 | His second wife was Frances Dorothy Clark , daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur James Stephen , a member of the distinguished Stephen family , whose pro-Nazi views , the last of her enthusiasms , were to lead her to broadcast occasionally for Germany during World War II . |
| 16 | A number of hazards were revealed which had not been specifically predicted but which needed to be taken into account in designing the main research project . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're really thirty , ’ said Catriona , trying to sound as if she were pretending she did n't believe it . |
| 18 | But erm and then we 've got still , we , we were looking we 've still got holly with berries |
| 19 | Yeah you see , well when we were looking you see so many and you think ooh that looks nice , ooh that 's nice but some of them are just so squadgy and well nice if you , if that 's how you want to sit |
| 20 | Early efforts to become involved in multi-agency approaches to crime and associated topics were painful experiences … we wanted to maintain the lead in every forum , to be the gatekeepers of power and have the right of veto if decisons were made which did not suit us . ’ |
| 21 | It was rarely possible to unambiguously identify incorrect memories , where descriptions were produced which did not clearly correspond to any junction on the video there was usually no way to decide what event the description represented an incorrect memory for . |
| 22 | He did not want to take life seriously , and he felt his relationship with Constance — and her independence — were forcing him to do so . |
| 23 | If they were told they did n't go , they certainly got some help . |
| 24 | But shortly before the general election , local authorities throughout Britain were told they did not have to go ahead and that a second period of consultation was to be held . |
| 25 | ‘ Very early on we were told you did n't mess around with food — even if it was crumbs , my mother would do something with them . |
| 26 | Today Oxford magistrates were told he had not told the authorities who was driving , or filled in a means test form . |
| 27 | Teesside Magistrates were told he had not entered plans with Middlesbrough council , had failed to give notice of work being carried out and had not made the foundations big enough or deep enough . |
| 28 | I had found the wire cages where they were trapping them coming down into a stream . |
| 29 | So most rooms were papered you did n't leave the walls just painted ? |
| 30 | Without explaining to where they were going she walked regally from the room swinging her brief-case which , unlike a great many brief-cases on the streets of Berlin , was filled with notes and papers and not stolen goods . |