Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the young men had been hurt in a demonstration and his clothes were spattered with his blood . |
| 2 | She felt almost naked , as if she were parading in her chemise . |
| 3 | On 9 December the long-haired devotee of the Beatles ' ‘ White Album ’ , Charles Manson , and five of his followers were indicted for their murder . |
| 4 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 5 | I particularly enjoyed long evening discussions with Lance , whose meticulous methods and ambitions in broadcasting were explained in his book ‘ The Stuff of Radio ’ , which he sent me on his return to London , together with a copy of his novel , ‘ The Perfect Witch ’ . |
| 6 | As a complete neophyte in this area , I attempted to establish the criteria according to which some languages were listed under their language families while others had separate entries . |
| 7 | Such a pair belonged to Sir William Ingleby of Ripley , Yorkshire , in 1617 and were listed in his inventory as ‘ shipp sawceres ’ . |
| 8 | The two huge spikes were rammed into his body . |
| 9 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 10 | ( Indeed , the anti-vivisectionists were allowed a small but notable coup on this score : Sue Crowshaw , badly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis , made a moving speech denying scientists the right to claim they were experimenting on her behalf . ) |
| 11 | Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son . |
| 12 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 13 | The Headquarter was originally at Rugby Cement Works where disused offices were placed at our disposal , but later as the unit increased this was moved to the Church rooms , and the unit was commanded by Captain Sammy Wenham . |
| 14 | But difficulties were placed in their way . |
| 15 | His ashes were placed in his wife Gail 's coffin which was buried with their three children in the rainswept Lake District . |
| 16 | But there is no evidence that he mounted a critique of the position in which women were placed in his society . |
| 17 | For example , coins minted with the name and portrait of the unpopular Roman Emperor Caligula were demonetised after his death in order to obliterate his memory . |
| 18 | ‘ You are looking at a genuinely reformed character , ’ he assured her with soft intensity , his gaze darkening as his eyes roved hungrily over her flushed cheeks , then down to the open neck of her checked blouse where her breasts were crushed against his chest . |
| 19 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 20 | And of course , the options people were given in our survey gave a more extreme range of APRs than is likely in real life . |
| 21 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 22 | It can also be used on some burnt stone tools , and is particularly useful if such tools were heated during their manufacture . |
| 23 | Only two of the 10 practices were overspent on their hospital budgets , and these two practices also had an overall overspend . |
| 24 | Signals were flashing in her brain . |
| 25 | They would drink and then her jealousy , usually over his current leading lady whoever it might be , would come to the boil and Bogie would goad her until the bottles were whizzing past his head . |
| 26 | But I was n't about to vice either that thought or any of the others that were gathering in my mind . |
| 27 | Periodically revised and completed , these ‘ rules and regulations ’ bore the imprint of the administrative tradition that had hitherto governed broadcasting , and were criticized for their formalism — and insufficient recognition of the realities of broadcasting . |
| 28 | The BMA were criticized for their intransigence and the pharmaceutical industry 's advertising was criticized for seeking to frighten patients . |
| 29 | But they were limited by their technology . |
| 30 | One of the most popular misconceptions about the past is that our ancestors were rooted in one particular place , that they rarely ventured beyond their restricted horizons and that consequently they were limited in their outlook and in their knowledge of life beyond the parish . |