Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the British were enjoying their baked potatoes the Americans were enjoying crisps . |
| 2 | Finally , he and his immediate circle , including his wife , were enjoying their privileged position ; like many autocrats before and after him , Franco found the exercise of absolute power addictive . |
| 3 | My conception of the part , especially since we were seeing its full development in the three plays , was that even in his wild days the Prince must sometimes be aware of the burden of kingship which lay ahead . |
| 4 | If Guangdong and other coastal regions were to lose their virtual autonomy in dealing with foreign investors and their privileged access to raw materials and fuel supplies , the effect would be far more damaging to Hong Kong 's confidence in China than the sight of tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square . |
| 5 | The Barbarians , who were actually Celts and were given their cruel name by their invaders , transported their stuff by sea or by horse and cattle ( and had links with Europe , incidentally ) , the Romans built roads . |
| 6 | Two members of the French side were given their marching orders and have since received substantial suspensions . |
| 7 | Benefit of the Doubt must be given that all employed by the Grand Canyon were brain damaged at birth and were given their bureaucratic procedure in India . |
| 8 | Until then , every studio had a cast list of thirty or forty top-billing actors and actresses and dozens of contracted young people who were provided with their acting lessons , their dance lessons , their speech lessons , and the young directors were given their directorial tests , and they all went into bat often . |
| 9 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 10 | The Rochdale parents said they were reliving their whole trauma along with the parents of Orkney . |
| 11 | There were nine men around the fire , and they were cooking their terrible food . |
| 12 | She stared meaningfully at the place where his fingers were circling her upper arm , and he made a wry face and released her . |
| 13 | The Prussians found that the advanced industrial nations of the West were using their colonial possessions to fuel their industrial drive , and accordingly Prussia began to seek out markets that the British , French , Belgians and Dutch did not dominate . |
| 14 | tufts of weed were using their green levers |
| 15 | While this does not prove that the first group of subjects were using their left hemisphere and the second group their right hemisphere the results are at least consistent with such a supposition . |
| 16 | A spokesman told us : The officers who searched the house were using their statutory powers . |
| 17 | Nightingales were singing their melodious songs and … [ their voices blending ] with the debates and discussions of the students . ’ |
| 18 | and they were singing the territory , hello darling , they were singing their territorial songs |
| 19 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 20 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 21 | Two incidents from William Joyce 's time at the College of St Ignatius Loyola were to foreshadow his public personality in adult life . |
| 22 | Armenia 's plans to introduce its own currency were completing their preparatory phase , according to Vice-President and head of the government Gagik Arutyunyan on June 6 . |
| 23 | Yet by the 1830s , some 50 students a year were gaining their qualifying diploma ( after an oral examination , conducted exclusively by medical men ) and the profession was steadily gaining recognition and status . |
| 24 | Jube had his feet , the other two were cradling his upper body between them , his head lolling back against their linked arms . |
| 25 | A many men were hanged who other years might have escaped with only a whipping . |
| 26 | The film Scandal was being hyped through the papers at the time , and reminded everybody ( everybody in newspapers and public relations , anyway ) of those dear dead days of yore when Christine Keeler and co were weaving their sexual spider 's webs from Defence Minister to Jamaican playboy via Russian spy . |
| 27 | If all industrialized countries were to increase their overseas aid to the 0.7 per cent of GNP recommended by the United Nations , it would cost an extra $50 billion a year . |
| 28 | Only the pre-lunch session was possible on the second day , drizzle intensifying to heavy rain which even penetrated the Press-box roof just as Cornhill Insurance were announcing their two-year extension of sponsorship . |
| 29 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 30 | On cue , the rowing boat appeared from around the coastal bend and in it two topless dykes roaring and cheering were urging their little craft into the cove . |