Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the morning , she rose early and already the fires were lit and breakfast cooking on the range . |
| 2 | The Love Canal issue raised a scandal in the late 1970s , when it was revealed that families living in the area were at serious risk from chemical poisoning . |
| 3 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 4 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 5 | During the pilot study , because the local GPs had not been officially informed of the scheme that we were running , it was agreed that patients arriving with a GP letter would be seen by a doctor regardless of whether the complaint or injury fell within my parameters of practice . |
| 6 | It was thought that people tapping into the power supply illegally were sending high-voltage ‘ spikes ’ down the line . |
| 7 | It was contended that purchasers looking for a good-quality carpet would go to a conventional carpet shop and not to a carpet superstore which they considered was more applicable to the lower end of the market . |