Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held through the night , he wrote the following morning : ‘ I am treated like I was at home . |
| 2 | The instructions about practising will have been given while he was under hypnosis ( although he will , of course , have heard and understood every word ) and so , because he is willing for it to happen , they will be firmly planted in his subconscious mind . |
| 3 | I taught drama in an original and compassionate way , as I would like to have been taught when I was at school . |
| 4 | Notice had been received but it was after the deadline and therefore not valid . |
| 5 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 6 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 7 | King John had not been invited because he was under sentence of excommunication — he did not , therefore , legally exist — but when the council finally took place five proctors represented the king of England , three of whom were clerics , the archbishop of Bordeaux , the archbishop of Dublin and the king 's chancellor , Richard Marsh , and two laymen , John Marshal and Geoffrey Lutterel . |
| 8 | And what 's Popsey been doing while you were at the park ? |
| 9 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 10 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 11 | Unfortunately he 'd been burned , but not badly enough for the bone structure to be altered as it was in Lawton 's case . ’ |
| 12 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 13 | Lord Meston submits that the relevant facts of that case are remarkably comparable to the facts of this case , for the mother 's assertion that there would be a grave risk of an intolerable situation for the child largely depends upon the financial circumstances in which she and the child would be placed if they were to be returned to Canada . |
| 14 | I can not resist retelling one of the anecdotes : in 1963 , at a party to congratulate Cotton on an award he had just received , Lipscomb told Cotton that while he was delighted by the choice , it should not be supposed that he was on the ‘ cottonpickin' ’ committee . |
| 15 | ( I have included the concluding six words , although the need for them was not explored in argument , since without them the position would be frozen as it was in 1987 , which would be absurd . ) |
| 16 | Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls . |
| 17 | Mr Recorder Paul Worsley adjourned the case until Friday for social inquiry reports to be prepared because he was considering locking Largue up as a warning to other young drivers . |
| 18 | How any attempt was going to be made when she was in Mariánské Láznë and Ven in Prague , she had n't fathomed as she made her way down to breakfast . |
| 19 | Gifford hated to be disturbed when he was in here whether he was with Edwin or alone . ’ |
| 20 | But this would be weakened if we were to be deflected from our existing targets . |
| 21 | It might be said that it was in 1973 that Warrant Officer Dirk Coetzee 's real life began . |
| 22 | I 'd like to er say one or two words before er moving the amendment and I , I 'm very pleased to hear that the two are to be incorporated as it were into this one . |
| 23 | It could therefore be argued that it was in the interests of the Soviet Union to see the Korean peninsula in the hands of a friendly regime and American-Japanese interests pushed out of the Asian continent . |
| 24 | But it must not be thought that he was in this alone in his society : there were others also who were not . |
| 25 | And would the radios be used once they were in the flat ? |
| 26 | Affirmative evidence rebutting that implication would , I think , be needed if it were to be contended that paragraph ( b ) had not been satisfied . |
| 27 | Governments had to be persuaded that they were in a position to run their eyes down a list of options so as to gauge the inflationary consequences of a particular package of demand management policies . |
| 28 | I had n't known she did , but apparently she could only be persuaded when she was in her cups , which was a rare occurrence . |
| 29 | So if you took them that day you 'd be going while you were on duty ? |
| 30 | It is a little difficult to explain why the 1 January method superseded 25 March as the start of the historical year , although it can be shown that it was in ordinary use early in the eighteenth century , as witness such as ‘ A True and Perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of John Green Deceased the eight day of January 1713/14 ’ . |