Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 2 | How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ? |
| 3 | If we were to carry out a similar survey in the future and recording conversations would you be willing to take part ? |
| 4 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 5 | They were to drive around a marked circuit whilst keeping a ball in a dish on the bonnet . |
| 6 | So a conductor 's duty were n't very very nice then , probably three piece duties , which were spread duties but you know people thought they were bringing in a wonderful thing to be one man operated but it was before the war that we had one man operated buses . |
| 7 | er If it 's an emergency case — if you were bringing in a sick relative who you were wishing to have admitted to our accident and emergency department , you can park your car right outside the front door and bring your relative in . |
| 8 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 9 | The town ended sharply , and we were driving along a bumpy lane through the jungle at reckless speed . |
| 10 | Another time in the 1987 election we were driving along a dual carriageway in Norfolk heading for an airport to meet Mrs Thatcher 's plane and join up with the Battlebus . |
| 11 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 12 | The intentions behind the important reforms of 1988 were to tighten up the social security system in order to reduce the disincentives to work recognized as inherent in the poverty and unemployment ‘ traps ’ ( see Tables 16.7 and 16 . |
| 13 | They were walking along a smallish road to the left of the extraordinary green-and-white-striped cathedral and David suddenly stopped and put both hands on Julia 's shoulders . |
| 14 | They were walking along a broad corridor between glass-partitioned offices , lit by bleak fluorescent strip lighting , where sallow-faced men in shirt-sleeves stared at computer terminals or pored over sheets of printout . |
| 15 | As they were walking along a narrow passageway by the bar Mr Maltby accidentally nudged Mr Waterworth a former miner , and ‘ spilled twopence worth of beer . ’ |
| 16 | It was a sunny autumn afternoon in 1963 as John and Mary Briggs were walking along a disused trackbed in the West Country with their two Jack Russell terriers , Tina and Spot , who were enjoying their walk as much as their owners . |
| 17 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 18 | The mischievous side of the bright-eyed youngster 's character certainly came through when the English Opera Group recorded an LP of the production ; he munched nuts , not realizing that the microphones were picking up every tiny sound . |
| 19 | The irony is that no VAT would be levied if hoteliers were to set up a separate sandwich bar business next to their property and handed out sandwiches and drinks . |
| 20 | If that company were to set up a new pension scheme based on only 461 employees , the likelihood is that scheme would in no way match a scheme based on more than 10,000 members , as is the case with the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 21 | they were lying down the other day |
| 22 | As we were clattering down the worn red tiles of the corridor , a junior aide bumped into De Gaulle , apologising with great profuseness . |
| 23 | He told Corbett to sit on a bench and went back to where he and a young man , a villein from the village , were poring over a great leatherbound book open on the table . |
| 24 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 25 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 26 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 27 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 28 | There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat . |
| 29 | The followers were calling up a half-glimpsed nightmare . |
| 30 | Soon we were bowling along a narrow road , through a gentle countryside of green fields , with dim mountains in the far distance . |