Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sounding strained , and as always when she was over-extended she was being unnecessarily bossy . |
| 2 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 3 | When eventually the story was checked it was found to be false , evidently initiated as part of an intercommunal feud by a tribal group which held a grudge against the government . |
| 4 | Due to the anti-Japanese war of nineteen thirty seven to forty five , the United Front was formed which was committed to the maintenance of a broad alliance of classes . |
| 5 | The first category , compare and contrast positive and negatives , involves a comparison between positive and negative adjectives describing the person used together to form the final opinion ; for example , ‘ [ I ] weighed all good points against all bad points ’ or ‘ as far as I was able to tell , every person was described by three positive/favourable adjectives and three negative/unfavourable ones … just as an impression was formed it was negated by the 5th or 6th words , giving it a cancelling out effect . |
| 6 | Without hesitation , she set off in pursuit , unable to think beyond the fact that he would be lost , not even considering that if she was dismissed he was no longer her responsibility . |
| 7 | And then it was boiled and boiled that it was er tender and that and then it was taken out and cut into bits and this is what a potted head And then it was That was done and then er Where the water what was boiled there was often fat but that was all skimmed off , and er next day there was as much water in the And er meat from the head was put in and pepper and salt and that , and then it was boiled again and then put into little dishes and that was your potted head . |
| 8 | About 1.30 am we got home to Debenham , it was raining it was cold and completely desolate . |
| 9 | We were lucky last week cos half of us have got netball , half of us have got hockey , but last week because it was raining it was too bad for the hockey people to go out cos they co , with it being dark as well so we , we just stayed inside . |
| 10 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 11 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 12 | I thought from the discussion we had a month or so ago , that they 've used the eighty three based correction factors , but it maybe something else because the description this morning was given it was some lo other local one . |
| 13 | I was all prepared he was suggesting there was a beautiful big orange over there , it was , he found out that neither of us , non , |
| 14 | When at last he went out as the dusk was gathering she was very glad to see him go . |
| 15 | She was planning to get into university on demobilisation , to study history , and wherever she was posted she was accompanied by a large wooden crate of study books . |
| 16 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 17 | Although he was sacked he was taken back a fourth time and he did indeed die in harness . |
| 18 | If it was conditioning it was deep as her bones and marrow . |
| 19 | All the time he was eating he was thinking how he could get out again . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |
| 22 | If the would-be Finian was wounded he was not accepted . |
| 23 | The basis of the system was to establish what was happening , who was responsible , what the targets were and whether they were being monitored ( see Greenwood and Wilson , 1989 , p. 125 ) . |
| 24 | And when he was caught he was given a bowl of Winalot dog food , he alleged . |
| 25 | And when he was caught he was given a bowl of Winalot dog food , he alleged . |
| 26 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 27 | And one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abuse at him saying , you are not the Christ ! |
| 28 | I say it was say it was about three , four years since I 've been in there so |
| 29 | ‘ I felt if I was dropped it was not too bad to be dropped in favour of the second-best hooker in England . ’ |
| 30 | When Hilary Frome was approached he was , as the headmaster expected , perfectly amenable . |