Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 2 | Two branches in Birmingham were visited regularly for over a year between 1980 and 1981 . |
| 3 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 4 | They were brought out on only a few special occasions and were always carefully washed and returned to their place of honour . |
| 5 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 6 | But that was , we were standing there for about an hour I should think it was . |
| 7 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 8 | Like many staunch , working class families , the Gedges were keen on discipline and Gedge was brought up in quite a rigid environment . |
| 9 | A postal survey of genitourinary medicine clinics in 1988 showed that a third offered hepatitis B vaccine to clinic attenders , and a recent audit report from a London genitourinary medicine clinic estimated that vaccine was delivered successfully to only a quarter of susceptible new homosexual patients . |
| 10 | It was published regularly for almost a century and appeared in twelve editions and seven languages . |
| 11 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |