Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 2 | There are two main methods of budding — that which may be regarded as the traditional way , and another ‘ new ’ method that is more often used for other shrubs and trees — although we were using it 40 years ago on both bush and standard roses . |
| 3 | ‘ He said you were bringing her some thirst quenchers , and he asked me to run down and collect them . |
| 4 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 5 | Hua 's policy of the ‘ two whatevers ’ , i.e. to ( 1 ) resolutely uphold whatever decisions Mao had made and ( 2 ) carry out whatever the Chairman had instructed , were to cause him some difficulties in a changing political environment . |
| 6 | Collar insignia on the khaki jacket were to comprise thee regimental number over the branch device for all ranks below colonel ; and for colonels the national coat of arms was additionally worn in front of the branch device . |
| 7 | Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’ |
| 8 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
| 9 | ‘ Would it not be better if you were asking us such questions with a beer in front of yourself and the taste of it warming your throat ? |
| 10 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 11 | If we were doing it seven days a week , fair enough , you 'd probably need a chainsaw but anything , the loppers or the handsaw . |
| 12 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 13 | " Habib Olahi thought part of the blame lay with Iran 's allies — particulary the Americans and the British , who were giving him differing advice . |
| 14 | It was as if she were giving me some hyacinth bulbs and saying December was a bit late to plant them . |
| 15 | ‘ No wonder they were giving me funny looks ! ’ |
| 16 | One day , she came out to the perimeter fence ; another , she came into the kitchen when they were making me some food . |
| 17 | Was what you were telling him this morning , was it ? |
| 18 | Alex Ferry , confederation general secretary , said workers were saying managers were telling them compulsory redundancies were essential and warning of a ‘ last in , first out ’ selection procedure . |
| 19 | Just a few months ago , Opposition Members were telling us that trust hospitals would fail and that they should be judged by the simple test of whether they do more or less work on NHS patients . |
| 20 | Oh it were to tell him that dinner were ready and there 's this cheeky little mouse sat on top dinner , and he ai n't half eaten it |
| 21 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 22 | ‘ I was picturing her face when I said I was seeing you this evening . ’ |
| 23 | Scored for flute , viola and harp , it is alternately perky and elegiac in mood , reflecting the happier circumstances of its composition — and Zeisl 's knowledge of the heart condition that was to kill him three years later . |
| 24 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 25 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 26 | Because there was nothing left any more for him to care about , and if his attitude over the past forty-eight bours was anything to go by , he was keeping it that way . |
| 27 | To bring false charges against one 's enemy , backed up by witnesses , was to cause him great inconvenience and expense . |
| 28 | All she 'd done was show him that photograph of Fabien , she remembered restively . |
| 29 | And it was costing him fifty P a week . |
| 30 | it was costing us two pound fifty per week |