Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 2 | On the train , however , it was possible to try to catch up on what there was to know about Christabel LaMotte . |
| 3 | Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed . |
| 4 | Mr Goodman adds that the company was fortunate to have started up in the recession , because services could be had more cheaply than in easier times . |
| 5 | She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 6 | And what happened to this warning Bernard was supposed to have passed on to Bailey ? ’ |
| 7 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone was supposed to have come up to me and said , ‘ Did n't you know that there are many starving people in Ethiopia ? ’ to which I 'm supposed to have said , ‘ Yeah . |
| 9 | Jay raged against the divorced husband and all the lovers Lucy was sure to have had in between . |
| 10 | Celia kept slipping and Liza kept telling herself she was ridiculous to have given in to the child . |
| 11 | But I knew it was useless to try to make up for all his losses . |
| 12 | Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled . |
| 13 | She knew that it was liable to come swishing down on her hands and legs at any moment . |
| 14 | He was last seen staggering out of the house into the street possiblity still being pursued by his assailants . |