Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 2 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 3 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 4 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 5 | I 'll have to wallpaper your bathroom , then paint it , I then have to touch up the door cos it 's that kind of paint and I had it like , on the top of the loo , I was doing it up a bit , and the next thing I saw was Felix coming onto the back of the wind ah |
| 6 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 7 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 8 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |