Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pope hinted to the mission that much embarrassment could be avoided if the King were to arrange his divorce without consulting Rome . |
| 2 | Soon three spiders were inching their way along the wall towards a small window on the ground floor . |
| 3 | At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling . |
| 4 | The troops were given their briefing in the hall . |
| 5 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 6 | ‘ Essentially , they were accusing our movie of being homophobic . |
| 7 | And while they were biding their time over a game of backgammon down in the café , William used to wander through the silent , cluttered rooms where their investment languished , gathering dust . |
| 8 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 9 | The members of the politburo who queued up to pronounce convoluted and mendacious encomiums upon the ‘ hero among the nation 's heroes ’ or his ‘ world-ranking scientist ’ wife were proving their status as political eunuchs . |
| 10 | you were singing your head off non stop |
| 11 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 12 | Dave said : ‘ Before the field trip , we were basing our knowledge on a lot of speculation : we had little direct access to data and there was little consensus among academics and the oil industry as to what the source rocks are . ’ |
| 13 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 14 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 15 | I was only too aware of the possibility that if any guest were to find his stay at Darlington Hall less than comfortable , this might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness . |
| 16 | And she had to go out , but no Bernard now you forgot this bit here , she was , er house , the decorators were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning ! |
| 17 | They were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning right , and Margot |
| 18 | In the Victoria Gardens , the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry band were regaling their audience with tuna from The Shop girl , promenaders were risking the doubtful weather and adorning the seafront in their Sunday afternoon best . |
| 19 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 20 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 21 | He could n't tell a woman like Maggie Byrne that thoughts of Sarah were blighting his relationship with his wife , and turning him to celibacy . |
| 22 | Suragai and Kadan were walking their st'lyan on the grass where the stream curved away out of sight , each of them with one of the twins in the saddle . |
| 23 | Some stores had started cutting prices before Christmas , but then it seemed customers were keeping their money in their pockets . |
| 24 | Both the DoI and the 600 Group were keeping their information on the effects of robots on employment to themselves . |
| 25 | Public concern was also heightened on Sept. 29 by an announcement that the prosecuting authorities were ending their investigation into the cases of 12 other politicians , none of whom was named , who had received some of the Sagawa Kyubin money originally given to Kanemaru . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Kent and Nord-Pas-de-Calais were consolidating their relationship with regular meetings at member and officer level which culminated in the protocole d'accord , or draft treaty , signed at Leeds Castle on April 24 1987 . |
| 27 | Whilst the Habsburgs were consolidating their power in central Europe they were confronted on the east by Hungary and in the south by the Venetian republic . |
| 28 | A leading feminist like Josephine Butler refused to have a man at her confinements , and women were consolidating their predominance in paramedical professions , such as nursing and midwifery . |
| 29 | It was almost as if an invisible hand were pressing his finger against the barrel . |
| 30 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |