Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he applied for was funding for research on ‘ The influence of geometry on social behaviour ’ . |
| 2 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
| 3 | And the only thing I cared about was the damn foolishness of the banning . |
| 4 | The nurses here wrote down every day on Stephen 's chart how many hours he had cried , but neither Sloan nor Dr Turner turned a hair when they looked at that on the chart ; all they cared about was the weight curve . |
| 5 | All they cared about was drink . |
| 6 | All he cared about was booze , but he still got the job done before he got soaked . |
| 7 | In the winter of 1518 all I cared about was surviving and life was hard in Paris . |
| 8 | Soon the dandelions came , all they cared about was blooming , getting their white clocks and blowing their babies far away . |
| 9 | ‘ I was asking what you 'd do if you discovered someone you cared for was doing wrong . |
| 10 | But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache . |
| 11 | The next thing she asked for was a job to do for the Lord . |
| 12 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 13 | ‘ All I asked for was a month 's peace and quiet to get some work done . |
| 14 | But that 's the one she asked for were n't it ? |
| 15 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 16 | Erm but f what it moved towards was them recognizing that they could sort out their own problems , and perhaps sort out each others . |
| 17 | One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol . |
| 18 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 19 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 20 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 21 | But this was when you moved to was n't it ? |
| 22 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 23 | I was eventually told to appear once a fortnight and later relieved from my duty altogether , probably because the senior officer I reported to was replaced . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was because he did not defer to her , flatter her , praise her beauty and her charm , admire her ready wit , as all the men she had known before had done , when what they really liked and deferred to was the knowledge of her father 's immense fortune and the certainty that she was sure to inherit a great part of it . |
| 25 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 26 | The ‘ driving offence or two ’ Trevor referred to was more serious . |
| 27 | Joe had gauged that the ‘ he ’ she referred to was the uncle and the reference to Pitman 's shorthand brought his eyes to Mick and his face ready to go into a grin ; but something in Mick 's expression checked it and he listened to him saying , ‘ She 's a bright lass , is Carrie . ’ |
| 28 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 29 | And one famous quote during a court case he presided over was : ‘ The old law of the eye for the eye and a tooth and for a tooth has no place in civilised society . ’ |
| 30 | Aye , the one that used to was poorly . |