Example sentences of "[adv] he [was/were] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all he was doing was listening at first and I thought oh no it 's so long |
| 2 | He was sort of well he was paralysed was n't he ? |
| 3 | To put the case far too bluntly , one might argue that a fifteenth-century scholar 's chief concern and the measure whereby he was judged was to achieve excellence in that is , knowledge or learning , through teaching and writing ; whereas a seventeenth-century scholar 's chief interest and the measuring rod of his success was the attainment of the high learned offices and the power , salary and perquisites that went with them . |
| 4 | But at least he was had been — an interesting and vital and daring sort of man . |
| 5 | These men have now spent 15 years in jail and Michael Hickey who was 16 when he was sentenced is now in Ashworth Secure Hospital . |
| 6 | The cell where he was held was , like a prison cell in a spaghetti western , built of mud . |
| 7 | In a letter to the court , Barwick said he was told that the part of the Esk where he was caught was a free stretch and that there were some good catches to be had there . |