Example sentences of "was [verb] and [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garland was shaken and he was still making up his mind how to react when the doorbell rang . |
| 2 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 3 | The back was broken and there was only one plank left to sit on , but I sat down on the peeling green paint . |
| 4 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 5 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 6 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 7 | He continued his relentless watching and when the omelette was prepared and she was almost ready to scream he asked , ‘ So why are you alone ? |
| 8 | Her fur was matted and she was so emaciated she could hardly stand . |
| 9 | Protest was silenced and it was only the new mood of glasnost in the second half of the 1980s which revealed the full extent of what had happened . |
| 10 | on the nineteenth of August was postponed and it 's now in a couple of weeks , so I 'm gon na go |
| 11 | After discussion , this was agreed and it was further resolved that this meeting be treated as an interim one and that a full AGM be held in March 1990 and annually thereafter . |
| 12 | One item on lease is a new in-house laundry which was acquired when high bedroom occupancy was anticipate and its was though that the hire cost of linen would be more expensive . |
| 13 | By now £4,500 was promised and it was formally moved that the venture be proceeded with ( the land purchases were already in hand ) . |
| 14 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 15 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |
| 16 | After the baby was born and he was no longer the sole focus of his wife 's attention he felt insecure and displaced . |
| 17 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 18 | I was busting and I was there going I said and I could n't exactly say can I go to the toilet ? |
| 19 | His face was bleeding and he was clearly very frightened . |
| 20 | Luckily for Paul a donor was found and he 's now made an almost complete recovery . |
| 21 | The clouds had thinned , the sun was shining and it was almost warm enough to create the illusion of summer . |
| 22 | The red mark on his cheek was fading and she was suddenly horrified by her uncontrolled outburst . |
| 23 | Marsh , the professor of Old Testament , had been a superlative teacher but his health was gone and he was now a passenger . |
| 24 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |
| 25 | Then he was gone and it was just the Shilling-Taker and Bastardballs again . |
| 26 | Her brightness was forced and she was clearly nervous at what might be about to happen . |
| 27 | ‘ Her head was shaved and she was totally naked , ’ said the director . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , under Colloredo Mozart 's honorary appointment as Konzertmeister was confirmed and he was formally appointed to the post with a salary of 150 florins/gulden per annum in August 1772 . |
| 29 | His imminent departure was discovered and he was ignominiously sacked . |
| 30 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |