Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As though they were seeing actors on a stage , Seb and Melody watched as one of the two riders suddenly kneed his horse forward . |
| 2 | As no formula for capitation funding had been developed fundholders were given budgets on a historical basis . |
| 3 | In response to these complexities , the original notion of the sociolinguistic variable with variants which were assigned values along a single phonetic dimension was considerably modified . |
| 4 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 5 | In a well-known experiment , subjects were shown playing-cards for a small duration of time and asked to identify them . |
| 6 | as though he were sorting cards for a seance . |
| 7 | Outside , in a field , a lively group of boys and girls were piling branches in a heap for their Halloween bonfire . |
| 8 | John Glassey and Philip Stokoe ( Stanley ) and Eric Coatsworth and David Strong ( Shildon ) were losing semi-finalists from a strong field . |
| 9 | There was a brawl going on in the entrance , and two policemen were clamping handcuffs on a couple of young men who were causing the trouble . |
| 10 | But he took off his jacket and went round the back to work with the sawyers who were cutting joists to a length . |
| 11 | She hated the way boys looked at you , as if they were giving marks at a cattle show . |
| 12 | Sir , — My firm were appointed auditors of a private company in May 1992 , and , due to the previous auditor being unable to act , carried out the audit of the financial statements for the year ended 30 September 1991 . |
| 13 | The event , organised by Angela Ainslie and Phyllis Bell , attracted seven teams who were asked questions on a wide range of topics . |
| 14 | The protesters , from the Peace Train Organisation which has run six trains along the Dublin to Belfast line , the main rail link between north and south , were collecting signatures for a peace declaration in Dublin 's city centre yesterday . |
| 15 | ‘ In short , ’ Coleridge wrote bitterly near the end of the year , ‘ we were to commence Partners in a petty Farming Trade . |
| 16 | She sighed erotically in his ear , as the tips of his fingers explored between her mature quim-lips to run the whole length of her crack as if he were playing scales on a piano . |
| 17 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 18 | There were increasing demands for a national policy for the unemployed as distinct from central support of local efforts . |
| 19 | We were discussing dunnocks with a well known ornithologist when he told us that , as a schoolboy , he had colour-ringed the dunnocks in his garden and was surprised to find three different adults feeding a single clutch of young . |
| 20 | He stood at a window and looked down over the trees , where rooks were crossing sticks in a light sway of air . |
| 21 | Before arriving in the Soviet Union , Holovich was recruited by the British espionage service and was given instructions for a contact — I do n't have to go into detail , these are matters available to me . |
| 22 | He was put on a ventilator under sedation , and was given drugs through a drip to take down the bleeding and swelling in his brain . |
| 23 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 24 | He was eating sweetmeats from a silver dish and , whilst Benjamin and I knelt before him , he kept popping them into his mouth , watching us impassively . |
| 25 | Its officials blamed perennial financial woes as the reason , adding that the society was pursuing negotiations for a potentially life-saving merger with another institution — the New York Public Library . |
| 26 | Ursula pointed towards the Cookham bank , where an unremarkable middle-aged man in a brown anorak was tossing crumbs to a quacking and splashing circle of waterfowl . |
| 27 | In the outer bailey an officer was shouting orders about a gate being oiled . |
| 28 | What he did not tell them was that European Equity Research was pushing shares in a little American advertising agency , " Pilgrim Venture " . |
| 29 | AS the row over Labour 's election broadcast grew it was revealed grandparents of a four-year-old boy paid out £300 for a private ear operation to avoid a six-months wait on the health service . |
| 30 | One of the giving-out-food humans was pulling trays off a shelf when a movement made it look up . |