Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey says nobody knows whether they let it out accidentally , or were getting their own back on Sykes for wasting a whole weekend . |
| 2 | Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time ! |
| 3 | Luke was drawing them all in , drawing them back , drawing her … |
| 4 | Syl was eating them all up without requiring any encouragement . |
| 5 | It was a make or break meeting and I was scared that I might end up getting violent — I was bunging it all up , trying to keep my mind balanced . |
| 6 | Yeah , she was wearing it flat out when she was |
| 7 | She decided to give up thinking about it — she was getting her own back on Mr Lord-Almighty anyway , was n't she ? |
| 8 | I wondered if the Great God Turhan Bey was in for a cut , or if Otto was doing it all off his own bat . |
| 9 | My job was to clear it all up so Dolph would n't mess up his trainers . ’ |
| 10 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 11 | ‘ I know not what you are talking about , Joan Halidon ! ’ complained Anne , having decided that she was making it all up . |
| 12 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 13 | Do you think I was making it all up just to console the Hobdens ? ’ |
| 14 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 15 | Oh , but she was telling me that down in Belfast everybody took , they used to say to her , fuck off Margot ! |