Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saved up for us to have a holiday , I booked a caravan and paid the coach fares and then on the morning we were due to go he said , " I 'm not going without a penny in my pocket , I ca n't , I ca n't . " |
| 2 | You were right to say I 'd neglected you . |
| 3 | ‘ You were right to recommend me to check on British right-wing organizations , General . |
| 4 | They were sorry to see him go . |
| 5 | We were sorry to see her go . ’ |
| 6 | As soon as the five psychiatrists heard he had been lying , they changed their diagnosis — and were prepared to say he had never suffered mental illness . |
| 7 | Secondly , Fender were prepared to compromise themselves to try to clobber Tokai by setting up Fender Japan ; Rickenbacker 's whole philosophy , on the other hand , is based upon never making guitars anywhere other than under their own roof . |
| 8 | There is not one night I have not fallen asleep wishing that I were free to ask you to marry me . |
| 9 | We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time . |
| 10 | Perhaps Moira and Martin had almost lost each other because they were afraid to let themselves go . |
| 11 | STEVE REDMOND today goes back to the club that broke his heart aiming to prove Manchester City were wrong to let him go . |
| 12 | Magazine Star Kicks admitted they were wrong to claim he had ‘ a reputation for wild drug orgies . ’ |
| 13 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 14 | He said that Forest were willing to let him go . |
| 15 | But they were willing to let us play on it because croquet would n't have done any real harm . |
| 16 | The staff who had greeted her arrival with such scepticism were sad to see her go . |
| 17 | Many were sad to see them leave … |
| 18 | The farmer and his family were delighted to watch me eating food with my own small knife and fork . |
| 19 | Both men 's families were delighted to hear they had arrived safely and their ordeal of waiting was now over . |
| 20 | His mother was always telling him that it was important for teachers to give , although what they were supposed to give she did not say . |
| 21 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 22 | Cos they were supposed to move you see ! |
| 23 | ‘ They were lucky to have you to let it to . |
| 24 | Examples of this approach are provided by Srihari and Bozinovic ( 1982 ) and Ullmann ( 1977 ) who developed a probabilistic model of the substitution , deletion and insertion errors that were likely to occur which modified the output from the shape recognition module . |
| 25 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 26 | When Cliff was transferred back to Watford in early May 1965 our supporters were much displeased but today Cliff is remembered at Selhurst Park with enormous pleasure by those who were privileged to see him play , and he was , without question , one of the most inspiring players ever to have appeared in the Palace colours . |
| 27 | Thinks what were these do you know ? |
| 28 | They were glad to see it go . |
| 29 | I would of thought so Mr yes , yes , erm , alright well Mr Mr erm this is a rather odd exercise in a way and as you know my first thoughts were they were better to leave it to see what , how the , how the judgment came out of it , but erm , erm , I do regard the matter as er , as a , as a whole as of very considerable importance both to both sides of this case and erm , it did seem to me on considering it , er , from recovering from the dentist that er , an , an outline of erm |
| 30 | He , they were late to bed I 'd had them erm round at the shops and then er er Queensway , then the shopping centre to pick up a card for for Chris . |