Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire . |
| 2 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 3 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |
| 4 | He gave up looking and found that he was on his own . |
| 5 | Standing on the front seat , Eb felt a rivulet of ice-cold water run down the back of his neck , and found that he was underneath a leaking gutter . |
| 6 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 7 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 8 | Only at Wrexham were painful thoughts quite unexpectedly revived : Coleridge caught sight of Mary Evans , and discovered that she was in the town visiting her grandmother . |
| 9 | A widow had the shock of her life when she opened a letter from her local council and discovered that she was in arrears with her rent . |
| 10 | The Priština committee of the Party issued a statement which described the organizers of this petition as ‘ nationalists , chauvinists , and fascists ’ , and alleged that they were in contact with ‘ hostile elements ’ in Belgrade . |
| 11 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 12 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 13 | I looked through the hole again and saw that they were on the top step . |
| 14 | She glanced at her watch , which was luminous , and saw that it was past teatime . |
| 15 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 16 | At one time she felt Charlotte turn towards her husband , and knew that they were in each other 's arms . |
| 17 | When the words came , they were hissed and halting , each of them separately delivered and stressed and they were in answer to Harry 's first remark as if those that had followed had not yet been absorbed . |
| 18 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 19 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 20 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |
| 21 | He said that as a boy at school he had such experiences and wondered whether they were like Michael 's . |
| 22 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 23 | The committee had not been able to establish clearly the cost of nuclear power but agreed that it was at least 2@1/2 times the cost estimated before privatization was considered . |
| 24 | The second lieutenant disappeared inside the main building intending to call on the Commander-in-Chief — without an appointment needless to say — but realized that he was in difficulties . |