Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty thought that was too much of a risk , but if they were out it seemed almost like doing them a favour , to patronise their pool , confirm that it was in working order . |
| 2 | Oh erm they erm they did a lot of the work that were Well they helped out at least , they they used to make wearing plates for the mills and that for the chutes and that . |
| 3 | Why were n't they ruled out of order before they transgressed ? |
| 4 | And I I last time I were there I went there for erm well to put it fairly straight I went to consult on something that 'd been done . |
| 5 | Partners and competitors of IBM Corp that have suffered at the company 's hands will feel a sense of schadenfreude that the company is brought so low , and will reflect on how right they were when they said back in the late 1970s and early 1980s that if the US Justice Department split the company up as it was then threatening to do , they would have four or six IBMs to compete with rather than just one . |
| 6 | That was all she took in at first , until Miss Belle cried in an excited voice , ‘ Well , Rene , take the coat off and let her feel it . |
| 7 | When it was over we filed out to the accompaniment of the organ . |
| 8 | When at last it was over she lay back in a sleepy state , as a result of too much gin rather than weakness from the birthing , but she no longer felt like cursing James . |
| 9 | When all was still I peeped tentatively through my fingers . |
| 10 | And that was that was how he wanted back to Glen Ayloch back to Glen Shee . |
| 11 | Many details , such as the reproduction of type-script and the printing of a page askew as if that was how it came out of the type-writer , suggest the fiction that the novel is a draft , a preliminary version , but of course the pages are printed and therefore fixed . |
| 12 | That was how she ended back at square one , Ilford — her temporary location since April 's bomb blast at City regional office . |
| 13 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 14 | The whole point was that the front was where they went forward from . |
| 15 | On and on about it he was when we walked up to the bridge . ’ |
| 16 | I remember how cold it was when we came down in the winter . |
| 17 | My best dive was when we went down to 18 metres the depth limit for novice divers it was even colder but it was fun the visibility was also low we had to feel our way back . |
| 18 | Well erm the er th th th the first and most horrific incidence was I think in the May , no no no it was n't May , it was when we went down to s to Cats in London which was at the end of eighty nine beginning of ninety and I went to , I went to the the doctor in June of nineteen ninety and odd things were sort of going through nineteen ninety , but it was n't until nineteen ninety one and I was off ill and it all went |
| 19 | It was when he got outside into the sunlight of a newly trendy Covent Garden that the disappointment hit him . |
| 20 | His only defeat was when he stepped out of his weight division to meet British cruiserweight champion Karl Thompson from Manchester . |
| 21 | Ethel Topp told an inquest in Middlesbrough , Cleveland , that the last she saw of her 72-year-old husband Edmund was when he went out to ‘ clear his head ’ on December 14 last year . |
| 22 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 23 | ‘ His great hour was when he dressed up as the newspaper boy and went to meet the train , ’ Sheila said tentatively . |
| 24 | My first big act of rebellion against cultural expectations of what an Indian woman should or should n't do was when I left home in the face of family opposition to go into higher education . |
| 25 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 26 | It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it . |
| 27 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |
| 28 | That was why he relied chiefly on Simenon , an author for whom he preserved a high opinion all his life . |
| 29 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 30 | Jamie was why you got back on the horse , why you did n't say if you were afraid when they stitched the cut on your face after the brakes on the bike failed . |