Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 2 | It was only when his embrace became more adventurous , his hands more demanding as he became aroused , that she realised where they were heading and she finally found the strength to pull away from him . |
| 3 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 4 | Without noticing its onset I found that I was crying and I went on crying until I slept . |
| 5 | He found that he was rolling and unrolling the brim of Maidstone 's hat in his fingers . |
| 6 | Quiss experienced the tiniest moment of fear , then savage anger , and was about to go down fighting — take as many of the little bastards with him as he could — when he realised that they were bowing and wringing their hands and making apologetic noises , not howling angry ones . |
| 7 | She had been shocked and upset to see her friend so ill , and suddenly John realised that she was weeping as she walked along with her face averted . |
| 8 | Julia realised that she was shaking and that Ian had taken her hand in his . |
| 9 | Many hallucinated that they were shrinking or else expanding to fill it . |
| 10 | July 1944 , failed although he was injured and undoubtedly badly shaken . |
| 11 | The deputies announced that they were resigning because the government " has not been able to keep its promises " with regard to the Kurdish population . |
| 12 | On the following day , however , after lengthy discussions with Cabinet and other colleagues , she announced that she was withdrawing and that she would accordingly resign as Prime Minister once the new party leader had been elected . |
| 13 | He claimed that Japan discriminated against American firms in its public-sector procurement practices , and announced that he was reviewing whether Japan had met the terms of a 1990 agreement with America to purchase supercomputers . |
| 14 | The government claimed that the miners had come to Bucharest " spontaneously " but admitted that they were fed and lodged in government-owned sports halls . |
| 15 | This was the first case in Tanzania of its kind : she argued that she was dismissed because of her sex . |
| 16 | And although disagreeing in significant respects with Schwoerer , W. A. Speck concludes that significant inroads on the royal prerogative were made by the Revolution settlement , and that " the debate on the nature of the monarchy did end decisively in 1689 with the victory of those who argued that it was limited and mixed " . |
| 17 | He refused , whereupon she argued that he was impeding and delaying justice by cavillaciones et diffugia ( ‘ quibbling objections and subterfuges ’ ) , and aimed to dispossess her not only of Bigorre , but of her vicomté of Marsan as well . |
| 18 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 19 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 20 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 21 | Finally , my father came and I was discharged and taken home . |
| 22 | His anger exploded after it was alleged that he and divorcee Jennifer Fitzgerald , now 59 , spent nights alone in a Swiss lakeside cottage . |
| 23 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 24 | The crunch came when it was realised that these competent women had a propensity to marry ( Martindale , 1939 ) . |
| 25 | They asked if he was cheating and decided that if he was able to do his work so well , there was no harm in giving him some more . |
| 26 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 27 | She never showed that she was hurt or angry or jealous or anything . |
| 28 | I replied that we were studying and writing , a fact that was obvious from the books , dictionaries and papers scattered over the table and the bed . |
| 29 | She signed because she was persuaded that it was the right thing to do , not because her husband 's pressure deprived her consent of reality . |
| 30 | Mr Bakker is the fourth PTL official to be convicted in connection with the scandal , which began after it was revealed that he had an affair with a former church secretary , Jessica Hahn , using PTL funds to pay her hush money afterwards . |