Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vogel 's watercolours were taken by the occupying forces to Germany but in 1946 were successfully claimed back and returned . |
| 2 | Transport links were badly thought out and remain a problem . |
| 3 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |
| 4 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 5 | It is true that in peacetime a large proportion of these ships were normally laid up and had their crews paid off : only when war was imminent or had broken out were they brought back into service . |
| 6 | What fools they , you say they were not to go in and possess it ! |
| 7 | It is no secret that the governor of Brixton prison knew on 4 February 1991 that a breakout from the prison was being actively contemplated by IRA terrorists in the prison , yet they were not split up or moved . |
| 8 | The laws , they argue , were soon dusted off and exercised to the full . |
| 9 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 10 | Cathbad clicked his tongue , because this was not the sort of thing you should say to soldiers , who were easily cast down and sent into gloom and doom , something you should certainly avoid before going into battle . |
| 11 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 12 | The soldiers too were always getting up and walking away . |
| 13 | We were both thrown down and began to roll across the deck , but I was on my feet first and climbed up into the sails , hand over hand . |
| 14 | To allow for background values contributed by complexes with E.coli proteins ( which were visually undetectable ) , dried gel slices from control lanes were also cut out and counted . |
| 15 | The third section offers a critical exploration of possible starting points for new strategies , not least by looking anew at some of the difficult and resilient questions about cultural identity and belongingness , about ethnicity and community , that were often glossed over or disavowed in the antiracist movement . |
| 16 | These valuations were accurately carried out and completed on time . ’ |
| 17 | that it was only er a face up , it were n't to pull down and rebuild |
| 18 | Perhaps our idea of shaving our heads before the Championship final was counterproductive because we were then singled out and called skinheads , or fascists . |
| 19 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 20 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 21 | Although Mr Jones final orders were neither carried out nor enforced , he became progressively more violent and was drunk more often , leaving them little or no money for food . |
| 22 | After the tourist season finished , and various cars were either written off or collapsed or whatever , you know whoever had a car was put forward as the picket you know er the leader of that picket er shift , and then it was just a question of working round . |
| 23 | These factors were : ( 1 ) its organisation which acquired the films and the exclusive overseas rights therein was in Hong Kong ; ( 2 ) its sales organisation was in Hong Kong ; ( 3 ) the representatives who were sent abroad were part of the Hong Kong sales organisation ; ( 4 ) the sub-licences were drawn up in Hong Kong , according to Hong Kong law , and were dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 5 ) the films were either delivered in or dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 6 ) the films at the expiry of the sub-licence period had to be returned to Hong Kong or were destroyed ; and ( 7 ) payments for the grant of the sub-licences were received in Hong Kong . |
| 24 | Because so many firms in the area were either closing down or cutting back production , there was a steady supply of textile machinery being sold very cheaply by local auctioneers . |
| 25 | The scattered globular rocks which both remarked were steadily gathered up and used for making limestone . |
| 26 | Knitting was their secret passion , knitting friends were never cast off or dropped . |
| 27 | No housekeeper could have resisted such an impassioned deputation : Violet was duly taken on and had donned her skivvy 's apron before you could say Octavia Hill . |
| 28 | The officer was duly fetched in and asked whether or not he had taken a statement from Wells . |
| 29 | The third category was eventually broken up and distributed into the yes/no compartments through consultation with those involved and colleagues . |
| 30 | Thornton was eventually smoothed down and persuaded to stay on condition that the paper find a Chairman at once — a reputable businessman whose name could be used instead of his . |