Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose more salted meat I mean more home home butching and erm making bread I suppose or the womenfolk were likely baking every day . |
| 2 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 3 | Once , while they were busy lighting the fire and sorting out equipment and the guard list , some children playing in Luckets field surreptitiously closed the door and pegged the hasp and clasp . |
| 4 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 5 | And we ourselves became different people from those we had been a minute ago , when we were teasing Filimon the goat or getting into a fight with Pechonkin 's street gang . |
| 6 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 7 | T we were thirty pound a week less . |
| 8 | His preparations had been so precise , there was little fear the base itself would be seriously damaged . |
| 9 | when you went shopping you could shop everywhere and a quarter of tea it was that price every shop , there was no competitiveness about it |
| 10 | An MP wrote to me , saying it was high time the Commission dropped all this ‘ Victorian nonsense ’ and abandoned such rules . |
| 11 | and then there was another man a way up Street and and he 'd made the claw carved the claw and balls . |
| 12 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 13 | That was another thing a Jew could not do ! |
| 14 | The exchange 's chief executive , Peter Rawlins , then resigned ( and was this week the centre of another row , about his huge pay-off ) . |
| 15 | Was this shambles a sign ? |
| 16 | ‘ You said it was straightforward policing a moment ago . |
| 17 | In 1910 a friend was killed crank-starting a Cadillac . |
| 18 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 19 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
| 20 | She was happier being the wife of an airline pilot . |
| 21 | Despite the ramp 's size only 16ft of 64ft of lip was platformed course the dosh had run out . |
| 22 | Charles whispered back that it was utter tripe the Brigadier was waffling . |
| 23 | The seat on my left was occupied by a fat lady who was busy peeling an orange . |
| 24 | He was busy forging a letter in the handwriting of Claire Clairmont . |
| 25 | Willi was busy undoing the wire round the champagne cork . |
| 26 | ‘ Help yourself , Piper , ’ shouts a Frenchman who was busy placing a heap of straw under a pig hanging by its hind legs from the branch of a tree . |
| 27 | She was busy lighting a lamp . |
| 28 | His starting point was stand-up comedy the thing he still does best , in 15-minute monologues at the start of every show . |
| 29 | Jan for example , when we had the the town hall thing , that was five pound a day . |
| 30 | but I do n't know if that was five pound a bag , I think that was cheaper than five pound a bag . |