Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second , the second point was that while the J C B was down there we er erm in consultation erm the chairman of those committees , we removed the old concrete base which crumbled whilst we were digging the erm the t the trench for the water pipeline , it was actually crumbling away . |
| 2 | Nests I found when I was clearing the garden , put the little eggs in and they 'd all gone cold . |
| 3 | He realized that he was supporting the weaker side , and was against the transfer of power to ‘ mere financiers and political economists ’ . |
| 4 | Encouraged by the thought , Mungo realized that he was forgetting the point of the search . |
| 5 | He realized that he was following the pattern of the streets , moving into the poor area of World 's End . |
| 6 | ‘ When they realised that one was missing the others stopped as they were about to leave Hoxa Sound and waited for it to catch up , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 8 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 9 | Three ministers announced that they were leaving the Government at their own request : Lord Belstead ( Ulster ) ; Mr Tim Renton ( Arts Minister ) ; and Mr Alan Howarth ( Education ) . |
| 10 | A Chinese delegation , headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin , visited Brunei on April 10-13 , 1991 , after which the government announced that it was considering the matter of establishing diplomatic relations with China and wished to have economic and cultural exchanges . |
| 11 | On Nov. 25 the new coalition government announced that it was to close the prison in the north-western town of Eskisehir where human rights groups had alleged that torture of political prisoners took place . |
| 12 | On Feb. 16 , 1990 , the IMF announced that it was releasing the long delayed third tranche of 21,400,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=US$1.32182 as at Feb. 16 , 1990 ) of its 1986 three-year structural adjustment facility [ see pp. 35690 ; 36551 ] . |
| 13 | In 1986 , one of America 's largest and oldest enterprises announced that it was changing the way it assigned its personnel : the US Army discarded a system that assigned soldiers to their units individually in favor of a system that keeps teams of soldiers together for their entire tours of duty . |
| 14 | Appleton & Lange is part of the business , technical and professional group of Paramount Publishing , more familiar as Simon & Schuster until a few weeks ago , when Paramount Communications announced that it was changing the name of publishing group ( International News , 5th February ) . |
| 15 | THE Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department of Transport yesterday announced that it was investigating the accident at Edinburgh Airport on Thursday night when Gulzar Sattar , 32 , a technical supervisor , of Harvie Avenue , Newton Mearns , died . |
| 16 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 17 | On Nov. 8 the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) led by Prince Yormie Johnson announced that it was rejoining the interim government [ see p. 38379 for its withdrawal in August ] . |
| 18 | On March 15 the Interior Ministry announced that it was to drop the charges pending against about 6,000 people for illegal political activities during the regime of Gen. Hossain Mohammad Ershad . |
| 19 | Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make . |
| 20 | Helaf Orbis Ali resigned as Minister of Labour on Aug. 26 and announced that he was leaving the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) to join the United Opposition Front ( UOF ) — an umbrella group including members of the parliamentary opposition and the opposition guerrilla Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 21 | Bush also announced that he was ordering the immediate lifting of the alert status of all strategic bombers and had directed their weapons to be put in storage . |
| 22 | Wide-eyed and dazzled from his epiphany , Oldfield announced that he was to marry the daughter of his Exegesis instructor and Richard must be best man . |
| 23 | With an uncharacteristic spurt of mischief she added that she was considering the matter . |
| 24 | They recognised that they were achieving the three ‘ S ’ factors — stamina , suppleness and strength . |
| 25 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes it seemed like he was breaking the club transfer record every week , but he told me if I kept on doing it I was safe . ’ |
| 27 | Two soldiers were injured , one critically , by a later bomb which exploded as they were searching the area . |
| 28 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 29 | The clause on which they finally agreed and which was adopted the next day as part of the constitution , read instead : Persons who can hear , taking an active interest in the welfare or education of the deaf and dumb , shall be eligible for admission to ordinary membership on the recommendation of five ordinary members of the Association . |
| 30 | I stopped and asked if we were going the right way for the castle . |