Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 2 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 3 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 4 | Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt . |
| 5 | Tonight Craig Cook 's parents said the council knew the wall was unsafe but did nothing about it . |
| 6 | Their trial , on Health and Safety charges has been told that they knew the gantry was unsafe but did nothing about it . |
| 7 | For some obscure reason , Tawell was convinced that installing himself in the company of such a simple and pious set would give him a veneer of respectability , however he conducted himself otherwise . |
| 8 | The moulding was hard and marked him for life . |
| 9 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that . |
| 11 | It was obvious that to base it on a villa one would need to have full access to the whole site and many more seasons — I imagined at least 15 . |
| 12 | It was not ideal , it was not what he had anticipated , far from it , but it was better than abandoning it to Adam . |
| 13 | They also suggest that their choice of index was incorrect but justify it by pointing out that it included both industrial and financial sectors and so could not have any undue bias . |
| 14 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 15 | If that was all that separated her from childhood , it was n't much . |
| 16 | We ate like hungry Travellers , but the meat was tough and needed someone with Masons Arms to cut it . |
| 17 | She was jealous and saw herself as a failure . |
| 18 | It seemed to Ruth , what her aunt had long suspected , that to part with loved ones while they are still living , with never a hope of seeing them again , was worse than losing them by death . |
| 19 | I have never felt such rage for M — even that day when she was drunk and hit me in front of that hateful boy Peter Catesby . |
| 20 | Murray 's cross from the right in the 67th minute was precise and evaded everyone except McCoist , whose header was turned towards Dykstra 's right-hand post and was as finely judged as the ball that set up the chance . |
| 21 | He says she was abusive and accused him of abducting her child . |
| 22 | The " black " group were significantly better at recognising this speaker ( p <0.1 ) ; most of the " white " group felt this speaker was Asian and assigned him to the " other " category . |
| 23 | He was lovely but watching him in that living room somehow said it all . |