Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Li Yuan was telling me about it yesterday . |
2 | Yuan was saying something in his own tongue to one of his companions , the man Mubarak , who had been renamed Barakai . |
3 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
4 | There was times when people were saying nothing to nobody . |
5 | She backed away , appalled such details should have been passed around so soon , and that people were confronting her with them . |
6 | Mrs Hannaway wanted to take Boris home in her handbag , but airport staff were having none of it . |