Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she heard a gunshot and the sound of a horn , and looking back she saw , high on Ballymacadoyle Hill , her own father and brothers and a crowd of others too , and they were waving and shouting — and suddenly she understood exactly what was happening : they were giving her their last farewell ; she was leaving Ireland , and might never return . |
| 2 | But the retention of a central earth , coupled with the mathematical advantages to be gained by having other planets orbiting the sun , commended his system to Jesuit astronomers who , by 1620 , were making it their own . |
| 3 | My secret eating was expressing what my secret writing ( a misplaced oral activity ) could not : my hatred towards those who oppressed me , my desperate sense of isolation . |
| 4 | Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business . |
| 5 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 6 | Life was teaching him its grim realities — the hard and close way . |
| 7 | He was sitting next to Charity , however , and she was giving him her sole attention . |
| 8 | In the pub that evening the hero of the hour was asked what his French friends had said . |
| 9 | He had taken them away from me and was making them his own . |
| 10 | She resolved on this but three hours later , having eaten Tom 's Indian takeaway and drunk half Tom 's wine , she was telling him her whole history . |