Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became aware that men were scheming against him and therefore summoned a council of gods . |
| 2 | Once the engine was exposed on both sides , hawsers were placed around it and it was then lifted from the hole . |
| 3 | We must move from the idea that the animals were given to us and made for us , to the idea that we were made for creation , to serve it and ensure its continuance . |
| 4 | Richard Muddle , Wolverhampton managing director , said : ‘ The horses were struggling on it and were not happy with the undulations . |
| 5 | I can … ’ but the words were stopped in him and he seemed to suffocate and gasp with the sense of a power beyond the Cages that he had sensed briefly before . |
| 6 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 7 | Would n't she always feel a fool , knowing they were laughing at her and her Irish ways . |
| 8 | She saw that Jennifer and Vanessa were laughing at her and something inside her stirred . |
| 9 | Even if the rules were obeyed , the system was clearly oppressive both to the families whose best sons were torn from them and to the young boys who would never see their parents again . |
| 10 | The result was not always music of good quality , but many worshippers were attracted by it and folk music made much headway , particularly in those parishes which had no working church musicians to compose for their own communities and resources . |
| 11 | He must also have regard to the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) to ( f ) of the checklist in s1(3) ( see Chapter 9 , 6(b) ) as if it were addressed to him and not to the court . |
| 12 | And I they were addressed to him and they were from the council and I simply said , er wrote on the outside erm no longer here , address not known . |
| 13 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 14 | She made contact and heard an exclamation of pain and then her arms were pinioned behind her and she was powerless . |
| 15 | They were dazzled by him and shut their eyes . |
| 16 | Inscribed Bibles were presented to them and among the recipients were several members of Edenderry . |
| 17 | It was like people were looking at me and guessing my age and looking to see if I had a ring on my finger . |
| 18 | And they were looking at me and I thought this int my cup of tea ! |
| 19 | Tony and Stephen had stood back to let their sisters greet Terry , but they were looking at him and waiting eagerly to greet him , oblivious of Frank . |
| 20 | ‘ You were looking at it and frowning , ’ Nan said . |
| 21 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 22 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 23 | my daddy goes erm where will you be so I can in touch with you by phone laughing cos they were shouting at me and then he said to me and then I told him it was n't and he goes so why do you go |
| 24 | After his death miracles were attributed to him and he was made a saint ; there were many who maintained that he was too ugly to be anything else . |
| 25 | and erm it was really remarkable because er , I mean presumably the Germans were told about it and erm kept U-boats and and the from shipping out the er |
| 26 | They were mesmerized by him and he drove the comedic tension forward at a great rate . ’ |
| 27 | , And much as she had disliked the old women when they were grasping at her and joking about her , she did notice that they comforted her mother , talking about her two lovely clever daughters , and made her join in a bit of a singsong and made her laugh . |
| 28 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 29 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 30 | When he , with others , helped to launch WWF in 1961 , great numbers of people were waiting for it and anxious to help . |