Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were excellent and built up my strength nicely . |
| 2 | All we wanted was proof that John was alive and to know why he was being held , but government policy was so rigid that there could be no contact , no discussions . |
| 3 | I went to him and said I was sorry and held out my hand , but he would n't take it . |
| 4 | His blond hair was n't short cropped like the others , but was curly and fell over his collar . |
| 5 | It was warm and ran down their bodies in rivulets . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't understand , ’ whined Rose , who was cold and wondering when she would be offered another piece of chicken . |
| 7 | Her hair was loose and hung on her shoulders , a burning bush . |
| 8 | The governing body was concerned that setting up its own separate committee structure would not only be perceived as competing with the existing structure ( with all the attendant risks of a developing ‘ us and them ’ mentality where one rarely existed before ) , but would also be repetitive . |
| 9 | All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work . |
| 10 | Jack Backhouse , a jet lad scarcely in his teens , was drunk and smashed up his father 's house A letter in 1853 claimed Whitby was infested with thieving ‘ city arabs , cast out of their homes , orphans by day and burthens by night ’ . ’ |