Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 3 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 4 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 5 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 6 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
| 7 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
| 8 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 9 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 10 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 11 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 12 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 13 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
| 14 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 15 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 16 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |
| 17 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 18 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 19 | Probably dropped in when we were shaking them in the bowl , Rice Krispies seemed to get everywhere , undo the thing and there 's Rice Krispies everywhere , |
| 20 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 21 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 22 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 23 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 24 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 25 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 26 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
| 27 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 28 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 29 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 30 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |