Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official report of the Maadi Hospital states that when Sadat arrived at the hospital and was examined he was in a state of complete coma . |
| 2 | ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman . |
| 3 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 4 | A deal was made which was of great benefit to both sides as Littler went on to present pantomimes for many years , sometimes as many as a dozen annually . |
| 5 | I think he was pretending we were in a TV movie . |
| 6 | The last time I was offered them was at a Free Kirk soiree and I was careful to keep my fingers to myself until after the Grace . |
| 7 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 8 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 9 | The next day , I was told what was in store for me and my schoolmates . |
| 10 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 11 | I thought they might be going to pay their rents , for I was told it was about the settling-time . |
| 12 | ‘ I was told it was on deck five . ’ |
| 13 | I was unable to use the public toilets since I was told I was in the wrong one whichever I went to . |
| 14 | He was told she was at home . |
| 15 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 16 | Presently they were ready at the place of meeting , and the gate was opened which was nearest the gardens where the Moors had entered , without order ; and they fell fiercely upon them , smiting and slaying . |
| 17 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 18 | Patrick was wishing he was at the wheel . |
| 19 | She was saying she was on a camcorder today . |
| 20 | When she was dumped she was in terrible condition , coping with seven young pups . |
| 21 | When the imagined objector said that there was no reason to pay the money now due as tax before the tax law was passed he was of course right . |
| 22 | The other was to ask who were to be the leaders of armies , and by what criteria they might claim to lead . |
| 23 | When the pregnancy was confirmed she was in tears from the shock , even though she had her suspicions when her periods failed to arrive . |
| 24 | that 's er one of those upright ones in there she said yeah I thought Claire might be interested in that and so I was thinking it was like the ones we 've seen but it 's not , it 's completely round and it 's on erm like a stand like that , you know , it 's an upright |
| 25 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 26 | However , her first feelings when she was sent there were of betrayal and resentment . |
| 27 | After eighteen years I was feeling everything was against me . |
| 28 | I was informed she was in the burns unit . |
| 29 | But the chief aim was to construct what was in some ways an analogue of the dynamics of the personnel situation which could be watched almost while it moved . |