Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 the rules governing the practices of solicitors were amended to allow them to advertise . |
| 2 | As long as they were doing what they were expected to do you see . |
| 3 | If any government were to try to force them to do so , there would interminable arguments about its definition and measurement , especially at a time when price controls and other government interventions are causing enormous distortions in enterprise incomes . |
| 4 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 5 | As a solitary concession , non-Brahmins were permitted to watch them dance . |
| 6 | When the Daniels contacted the police they were horrifed to learn they had no powers to evict the squatters . |
| 7 | She 'd fought , her fists were bruised to show she 'd fought , and there was nothing to work from . |
| 8 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 9 | After several attempts were made to stop him giving evidence |
| 10 | However , after discharge from hospital he remained isolated despite efforts that were made to encourage him to develop social contacts through joining community clubs . |
| 11 | Not only were they excluded from most professions , but efforts were made to prevent them acquiring land and to restrict their access to secondary and higher education . |
| 12 | They were made to make it look like a robbery . |
| 13 | Variant weapons included the guisarme or fauchard , which persisted in many forms as late as the seventeenth century , and inflicted such horrible wounds that attempts were made to have it banned during the medieval period . |
| 14 | I is interesting to not how closely their perceptions of what was needed tallied with what the service providers perceived as the language skills which were needed to allow them to work effectively . |
| 15 | Nearby , pale young men wearing Save the Baby T-shirts were selling Let me Live tapes , Silent Scream videos , Mother Teresa postcards , ‘ precious feet ’ badges , ‘ stop doctors starving babies to death ’ stickers , Even Nice Girls . |
| 16 | Well you er you , I thought you were going to ask her to look at . |
| 17 | " We were going to ask you to fix it in the pot so it 'll stand up , " I said quickly . |
| 18 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 19 | ‘ And you were going to let it kill those lambs . ’ |
| 20 | The day before he left was a Saturday and Nick and Carrie were going to spend it helping to harvest the small hay field at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 21 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 22 | We were n't really interested , particularly in Nottingham , it was the general strike but what we were going to do I mean we 'd o er we we 'd er already formed , more or less , a government of our own , if you understand me , to take over , you see ? |
| 23 | But erm what they were going to do I do n't know . |
| 24 | If , if were going to give them transfer real wealth , machine tools and all the rest . |
| 25 | I thought , I thought you were going to say we found his form on tip ! |
| 26 | ‘ You were going to say you have n't the faintest idea what I 'm talking about , ’ he continued softly , slipping the swimsuit straps off her shoulders . |
| 27 | I thought you were going to say you voted for them . |
| 28 | We thought at one stage we were going to see you motorbiking . |
| 29 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 30 | I thought you were going to put it facing the front . |