Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was astonished when I was told they did n't want anyone from Scotland for they were only taking on Irish staff . |
| 2 | Some of the tapes were already packaged up ready to be sent out . |
| 3 | Soon the three were gratefully lapping up cold , life-restoring liquid from a small stream , before settling down to lick the small pellet wounds in their steaming flanks . |
| 4 | Officers were yesterday carrying out house-to-house inquiries near the building in Hanley , Stoke . |
| 5 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 6 | Do n't think she 'eard , for she were still cryin' out fit to deafen us , beggin' your pardon , m'lord . " |
| 7 | I and in Glasgow and we attempted to break some of the barriers you 're talking about by holding a girl 's week and part of the girl 's was to run a five-a-side tournament and we were also breaking down territorial barriers , we had girls from different housing schemes within the east end of Glasgow , but I feel the opportunities do n't exist ! |
| 8 | If anything , he was worse after the break ; even the words he had remembered the week before were now coming out jumbled and confused . |
| 9 | Several churches were structurally redesigned along Arminian lines during the 1630s ; the Arminian cleric and poet , George Herbert , supervised the restoration of the ruined church at Leighton Bromswold near Huntingdon , and Abbey Dore church in Herefordshire was restored by a local landowner , Viscount Scudamore , who commissioned a new oak roof and screen . |
| 10 | Around the château itself were neatly laid out formal gardens with mature trees , age-old fountains and sweet smelling bushes as well as a neglected , sunken , walled garden . |
| 11 | A dozen or so schoolgirls were dutifully filling in xeroxed , hand-written , one-word-answerable questionnaires . |
| 12 | Groups were continually dividing over minor points of doctrine . |
| 13 | I missed his semi-erect dick , because I was furiously scribbling down detailed descriptions of his buttocks , but only a severely learning-impaired person would consider the character he is playing to be representative of normality . |
| 14 | Now began the real fight for the story , the exclusive , the Kiss ‘ n ’ Tell , which was mostly played out long-range from London , where the editors snarled and the home-side pack were still running around looking for defence ministers or Gorbachev or Cabinet luminaries . |
| 15 | Damian Flint was obviously picking up chairman-of-the-board points at a rate that defied imagination . |
| 16 | On the grimmer side , the national health service , which only weeks ago was apparently closing down vital wards , said this week that it was fully prepared to look after thousands of war casualties . |
| 17 | Our Minister Mr. Robinson entred as a subscriber three years past and one man was sent and was soon sent back uncucarable which year was as I understand settled and a Declaration was sent to Declair off … |
| 18 | Pipe was yesterday mulling over future plans for Miinnehoma following the gelding 's shock defeat at Chepstow on Saturday . |
| 19 | Just what constitutes time-wasting is a matter for the referee 's discretion , and if Tyson felt that Southall was deliberately using up precious seconds he was entitled to award Forest that crucial free-kick . |
| 20 | In Burgess Hill , a Miss Mary Hare had started a private school which was producing many academic successes , and the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's school at Northampton , now being run by Frederick Ince-Jones , was still turning out large numbers of academic successes . |
| 21 | The stoat was gradually moving round unobserved by the rabbit . |
| 22 | Dan Pohl , Larry Mize and even Ben Crenshaw all made hopeless hashes of the last hole , Eamonn Darcy holed the putt of his life , Ballesteros was obsessively snuffing out Strange and shortly after that something nice took place in the woodshed . |
| 23 | King Vidor showed with The Champ that he was very much at home in what Hollywood was now establishing as ‘ the city ’ but not surprisingly he was also taking up other challenges . |
| 24 | Passco of Leith Road was also wound up due to a £9,420 debt owed to Lombard Natwest Factors after repeated demands for payment . |
| 25 | The whole was then bought up rich Australian gold trader named Campbell , who proceeded to pull things together . |