Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and me mam were singing it the other night . |
| 2 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 3 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 4 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 5 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 6 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 7 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 8 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 9 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 10 | They were saying what a stupid series it was , how ridiculous the character was , and it would n't get beyond the first episode . |
| 11 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 12 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 13 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 14 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 15 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 16 | And , and of course needlework , but erm they were mainly the , I suppose they were giving you a good er grounding as they 'd call it in those days . |
| 17 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 18 | The family have previously written to former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker asking for information , but were left none the wiser . |
| 19 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 20 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 21 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 22 | Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage . |
| 23 | Right , correction , one lady does n't , but those who do go back to the Property Committee and I would say that erm if this were to happen , and the County Council were to make it a permanent site in that particular position , we could lay a charge of gross negligence , or even mis-appropriation of assets . |
| 24 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |
| 25 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 26 | Here the Bey of Tunis was building himself a superb mausoleum . |
| 27 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 29 | Stepney in the late 18th century was becoming what the Northern Heights — Highgate and Hampstead — became later , namely , an early form of London suburbia . |
| 30 | The problem for British producers seeking to emulate Korda 's achievement was to define what an international British film might be . |