Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 2 | How did you know we were on that train ? ’ |
| 3 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 4 | A real heavy duty place it was in those days |
| 5 | ‘ Looking at it now , I realise it was from this point that Diana began putting herself behind Relate and Aids charities . |
| 6 | It bore a French stamp and suddenly she did n't want to know what was inside that letter . |
| 7 | Did you know what was on this morning ? |
| 8 | ‘ Master Cook ! ’ he said , ‘ I do n't know what was in that flame pot of yours but it undoubtedly saved the day and many noble lives . |
| 9 | For a moment he imagined he was in another world , a simple uncomplicated world : a world where there was no place down below in the valley where men were being prepared for war ; that there was no place in Northumberland where a woman sat in a room all day with only her thoughts for company ; that there was no one called Carrie Smith ; that the world had dwindled and there was only this secluded garden and a secluded house , as had been said , with the hills to the back of it and the river at its feet and two women so unalike , yet alike : so understanding , so thoughtful of each other , and not only of each other , but of him . |
| 10 | And however well endowed he was with these qualities , he might still have difficulty on some points . |
| 11 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 12 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 13 | God , she had thought she was above that sort of thing , once . |
| 14 | The only time he 's ever had one was at this kid 's party Fran , Franny someone , he 's actually a bloke ! |
| 15 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 16 | You know who was on that story ? |
| 17 | erm , there 's on certain parts of ah what they put has shown they they 've understood what was in that part of the diary like in the exercises relating this morning to or to learning like with the Roman numerals and the other thing they shown that they understood what was in that context , but then on erm when you get later on it 's just er |
| 18 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |
| 19 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 20 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 21 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 22 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 23 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 24 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 25 | We may wonder what was behind those absences . |
| 26 | Well my Lord the issue is that the defendants deny they were under any duty to offer any advice about financial . |
| 27 | ‘ I never felt I was at any risk and in terms of being brave I never even considered it . ’ |
| 28 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 29 | I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland . |
| 30 | If they knew I was under that sort of pressure , they 'd stop giving me rides altogether . |