Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon all who were following me were leading me so the chances were that they were not following me though they could still be following me by leading me and then waiting around to ambush etcetera etcetera ; but of course not . |
| 2 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 3 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 4 | He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities . |
| 5 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 6 | The thought of inserting the diaphragm was worrying me quite a bit . |
| 7 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 8 | She was calling herself all the names under the sun , but it made no difference . |
| 9 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 10 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 11 | I 'll have to wallpaper your bathroom , then paint it , I then have to touch up the door cos it 's that kind of paint and I had it like , on the top of the loo , I was doing it up a bit , and the next thing I saw was Felix coming onto the back of the wind ah |
| 12 | He was asking them how the hunt had begun , and what had happened before we joined it . |
| 13 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 14 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 15 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 16 | Bruce was showing him how the new tree planting was coming on . |
| 17 | The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again . |
| 18 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 19 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 20 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 21 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 22 | Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading , especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death : city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling , like an aged little bookkeeper . |