Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A day or two before she was due to move she ran into a man she had known as a rather mysterious friend of Simon 's who used to turn up on leave now and again during the war . |
| 2 | It was strange to see them grown older , and more familiar with the Corporal , whom they 'd always feared , than me , their old mentor . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's Thursday , is n't it ? ’ he whispered , and it was strange to hear him say something so ordinary . |
| 4 | So it was awful to find I 'd done something wrong . |
| 5 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 6 | They were seen for one further session during which it was possible to help them reach a suitable compromise . |
| 7 | It had receded on a faint wave of sound , but it was possible to imagine it working hard against the up-grade of the Withcall tunnel cutting . |
| 8 | After seeing the child was upset did you do anything else ? |
| 9 | Lear 's death may not have been devastating , but I was sorry to see him go . |
| 10 | Not everyone on the island was sorry to see her go . |
| 11 | ‘ I was sorry to see them striding along the walks at Tunbridge Wells with their arms akimbo , dressed in martial uniform , ’ wrote the authoress Elizabeth Montagu that spring of some fellow members of her sex . |
| 12 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 13 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 14 | Was that rushing you to get that paper going ? |
| 15 | Amanda rolled over taking most of the duvet with her ; it was easier to let her have more than her fair share . |
| 16 | One woman was prepared to swear she had seen Sellotape on the back of Pike 's neck . |
| 17 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 18 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 19 | Worst of all were the arbitrarily imposed ‘ delivery ’ or discharge fees which often meant innocent people spending substantial periods in prison ( having been found not guilty ) until hard-pressed relatives raised the necessary cash for release and the gaoler was prepared to let them go . |
| 20 | ‘ At first I was prepared to think you 'd made a genuine mistake — that you 'd got the wrong boat . ’ |
| 21 | While I was n't exactly happy about this , it was interesting to see what happened ; the tip of the Plexaurelia branch which had landed in the mushroom polyps developed blister-like clear vesicles , the whole animal kept inflating and deflating itself more frequently than usual , and after about a week collapsed completely . |
| 22 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You must come and have supper sometime , ’ Daisy was staggered to hear herself saying . |
| 24 | She recovered herself , grateful that he had either not noticed how jumpy she had been or was willing to pretend he had not . |
| 25 | ‘ He said he 'd never prescribed it before but he was willing to let me try it . |
| 26 | ‘ You were almost too old to adopt , were n't you , so when Elaine had her baby and was willing to let you have it , it must have seemed — ’ |
| 27 | Cecilia was willing to do anything to make up to Tina for the deprivations of her childhood , though what these deprivations were she hardly knew . |
| 28 | ‘ How did you know someone had been strangling me if everyone else in there was willing to believe I 'd had a fit ? ’ |
| 29 | The suit she was wearing was the colour and texture of sacking , a foreign-looking suit somehow with those buttoned pockets , but the ticket collector was willing to bet it had n't cost a penny less than forty guineas . |
| 30 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |