Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were the firm that were make a tunnel up the hill . |
| 2 | If we were to mount a performance of this ballet , we would know , thanks to the livret , exactly how many dancers were needed and what roles they would play ; the musical forces are , regrettably , another matter . |
| 3 | Realizing that time was passing , the subject was dropped until later that evening when , after the dinner guests had departed , they were enjoying a nightcap with Wendell before going to bed . |
| 4 | Later when we were enjoying a beer with the station commander were we nearly disposed of when it was announced that the Stirling had clobbered a Coles crane , an ambulance , several minor vehicles and the CO 's Humber . |
| 5 | The two men were enjoying a condition of harmony which had been unknown in all the previous years . |
| 6 | Pascoe felt as though he were seeing a moment from his future but could n't guess what he would feel when the moment arrived . |
| 7 | After the race Mrs Fagan was presented with the trophy , a set of three cut glass decanters , by Mrs Alan Munns , whose husband is managing director of Munns who were sponsoring a race at Ascot for the first time . |
| 8 | Six of the engineers had swum to the northern bank where they were fastening a rope to a great elm tree . |
| 9 | People were fastening a rope to the ring . |
| 10 | He worked as if he were roping a piece of luggage , barely looking at Tessa , not touching her unless he had to . |
| 11 | The Wedding Present were given a budget of £30,000 to record the LP with the promise of up to £20,000 to promote it afterwards . |
| 12 | For example , in one scheme for 35 highly dependent elderly people introduced by Kent SSD , home care managers were given a budget of £66,000 a year to spend on buying appropriate services and/or particular equipment to aid independence . |
| 13 | These discussions were given a sense of urgency by the bitter railway strike of October 1919 . |
| 14 | Wives were given a say for the first time , and what they wanted was romantic practicality . |
| 15 | Pauline and Chris Russell were given a hi-fi for Christmas . |
| 16 | in the third division its saturday as usual for hereford … united were given a pat on the back by Wimbledon this week for playing so well against them in the cup … it beats a kick on the leg … tomorrow its all change for Crewe |
| 17 | Toward the end of the year , we were given a holiday on a Thursday because the school was being used as a polling station for the General Election . |
| 18 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 19 | In a fourth condition subjects were given a description in which not only was sentence ( 3 ) removed but also the internal structure of the story was disrupted by altering the temporal sequencing of events and removing the causal connection between them . |
| 20 | Yet the undecorated vessels were given a variety of titles , despite the majority having also come from cemeteries ; biconical and globular vessels were labelled ‘ urns ’ , squat vessels as ‘ plain bowls ’ , and a variety of shapes that could not be fitted easily into the typological scheme were labelled domestic wares , ‘ crude accessories ’ , ‘ wide-mouthed cook-pots ’ and ‘ cook-pots with lugs ’ ( ibid. , pp. 26–9 , pp. 148–70 ) . |
| 21 | The funeral feast was under way and we were given a quantity of meat . |
| 22 | They were given a tour of the craft demonstration area , and a chance to try the technique of ornamenting a Jasper sweet dish before enjoying lunch . |
| 23 | Then the visitors were driven to Cumbernauld where they were given a tour of Lyle Carpet 's tufted operation by Managing Director , John Stewart . |
| 24 | Each round was a point and at the end you were given a tenner for each round . |
| 25 | His procedure for testing the properties of the target flavour was one in which the rats were given a choice between this flavour and some other . |
| 26 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Passengers were given a choice of menu : Chicken tikka Massala or vegetable curry . |
| 28 | They were given a share of the profits : in Kenyan conditions — that is to say , the conditions of neo-colonialism — the public service had to be paid on a quasi-prebendary basis . |
| 29 | A little later Speedbird 486B did us the flavour of relaying our intentions to Bilbao , and we were given a routing via the standard reporting points November One and November and holds while the British Airways flight landed there . |
| 30 | ‘ After the last trip we were given a video of our babies receiving their individual parcels . |