Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 2 | What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear ! |
| 3 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 4 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 5 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 6 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 7 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 8 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 9 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 10 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 11 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |
| 12 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 13 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 14 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 15 | This was to drive something of a wedge between him and Lloyd George and other former Welsh allies . |
| 16 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 17 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 18 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 19 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
| 20 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 21 | George Orwell was warning everyone of the plight of poverty-stricken masses , whose only salvation was socialism and not the sort recommended by vegetarian cranks in sandals . |
| 22 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 23 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 24 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 25 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 26 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |
| 27 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |
| 28 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 29 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 30 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |