Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and children have felt that their vocation in life was to carry on this early training so that I have had a lifetime 's pressure towards humility , reinforced by the effect of biblical meditation and involvement in the worship of the Church . |
| 2 | Thus an early objective was to carry out some trials to compare this measure with a radiometer reading . |
| 3 | The next day I was hanging out some washing and he walked past me . |
| 4 | By 1921 indeed frustration with coalition was building up such a head of steam as seriously to threaten its future . |
| 5 | ‘ I was helping out some old friends from my Women 's Group today , that was all . |
| 6 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 7 | The bridge was filled in some twenty or thirty years ago when houses spread along this part of Swithland Lane . |
| 8 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 9 | Although Kitchener 's recruitment campaign was bringing in more men than the Army could properly train and equip ( by January 1916 two and a half million men had enlisted ) , public pressure was mounting for conscription . |
| 10 | It was pointed out that SSC grades jobs , not SMT . |
| 11 | Erm but anyway you s you started off with er with some greeting and er and er appropriate sociability erm one thing I noticed that Martin seemed to take control of the handshake and that 's something that was pointed out this morning and , and looked at and from where I was it looked as though he was keeping hold of your hand some time , you had your buyer 's guide and whatever in your other hand and you could n't , you know , bring it over and , and put yourself back into control erm and an interesting one and a , an e an example to all of us I think . |
| 12 | It said that he had a big problem he did n't want to bother me with , but that if anything happened to him , I was to pass on this envelope to you . |
| 13 | It was 11.00 p.m. at night when the victim , in her early 30s , was walking down this alleyway off Barton Street in Tewkesbury . |
| 14 | Saints ' Allan Hunte went past him with ease and Hanley was caught out several times in midfield in the Halifax match . |
| 15 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 16 | Now she was winding down another dead shift at the Decatur House bar , four customers on the dregs , drinking a little herself to get through the night . |
| 17 | Pammy , then , there 's a picture of her tractor , is there , no I have n't got one here , yes , is that the Alice Charmers , well , do you know the Alice Charmers tractor , the two front wheel close together , it 's got big wheels the long one , two little , well it was a bigger tractor than that but they were closer together Well , she was driving up this steep bank , I think that was how much the , and who knows so steep that only two roads were up near here , she could have gone over , it was terrible , and of course that thing , erm where is it ? |
| 18 | I was climbing up all these stairs to the office and thought by the time I get to her , I 'll be too puffed to dance properly . |
| 19 | ‘ My method was to write down these observations as soon as possible after hearing or observing them . |
| 20 | Erm what we were doing was filling in these these postcards asking MPs to turn up on February the fourth to support the energy conservation bill when it has its er second reading in Parliament . |
| 21 | Johnny Boy Gomes was the July pin-up on my surfing calendar back in Cambridge , and now he was picking up more barrels than a beer-truck . |
| 22 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 23 | He was one of a family of 15 raised by Newry garage owner Billy Goss and his wife Bridie , and since two of his older brothers played the guitar it was not long before young Kieran was picking out those three main chords himself . |
| 24 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants , has up and laid off all its vice-presidents and managers except for its engineering chief , and will close down all but its Russian and its headquarters operations , Unigram reports . |
| 25 | Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants ( UX No 420 ) , has up and laid off all its vice presidents and managers except its engineering chief reportedly without notice or severance and will close down all but its Russian and headquarters operations . |
| 26 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 27 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 28 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down each time . |
| 29 | And Lenin , who had talked only at party meetings , before audiences of Marxist students , who had hardly appeared in public in 1905 , now spoke to them with a voice of authority that was to pick up all their undirected energy , to command their uncertain confidence , and to swell suddenly to a world-wide resonance . |
| 30 | The need was to pick out those people who could skilfully and accurately follow instructions and do low-level clerical and administrative jobs for the metropolitan country . |