Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [indef pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't know that something was going to happen to make us think it really was the last mission for all of us ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't know that anyone was killed or injured near there so there should n't be anyone haunting it . ’ |
| 3 | Then I found that something was nudging at my memory . |
| 4 | The bitter weather was ending and everyone was feeling more cheerful when Joe was due to come on leave , but shortly before he arrived his mother had a vivid dream in which she saw him lying dead on a battlefield . |
| 5 | But what after all should a biochemistry of memory be about , and how would one know if one was discovered — that is , what sort of biochemical answer might prove convincing to both biochemists and to psychologists ? |
| 6 | Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' . |
| 7 | The reality was that he seemed to have been forgotten and nothing was going to serve as a reminder unless the kidnappers broke their silence . |
| 8 | Armstrong started up first go and I dialled around the local radio stations to try and catch if anyone was doing anything stupid on the roads . |
| 9 | Avery observed how completely Minton 's face dropped if anything was said that pained him , but that he would as quickly recover . |
| 10 | When McQueen discovered the situation , he refused to work until everyone was paid . |
| 11 | He said the incidents where cars had windows smashed but nothing was taken could have meant the would-be thieves were disturbed or got scared . |
| 12 | Lines were often cut by shell fire , and in repairing them it was not easy to know whether one was joining one 's own line or one of the enemy 's . |
| 13 | They were back in the Chinese room Sara once more tried to guess whether anything was missing . |
| 14 | Snapping open her eyes , she realized that everyone was staring at her , everyone was talking about her , everyone knew that she was about to — |
| 15 | When it bombed , despite all the planning , market research , and design that had gone into it , Ford realized that something was happening in the automobile market that ran counter to the basic assumptions on which GM and everyone else had been designing and marketing cars . |
| 16 | I was talking to friends when I realized that someone was watching me . |
| 17 | She skirted the fires , seeing no sign of movement , then realized that someone was running through the dark trees towards her . |
| 18 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 19 | She later explained , ‘ I did not think that anyone was going to believe us as a family . |
| 20 | For much of the eighteenth century , the old belief endured that everything was organized into a great chain of being , linking minerals , plants , animals and men ( and perhaps angels ) . |
| 21 | ‘ When they realised that one was missing the others stopped as they were about to leave Hoxa Sound and waited for it to catch up , ’ he said . |
| 22 | He stopped , glanced towards the half-open door , and all the blood drained from his face as he realised that someone was standing there , out of sight . |
| 23 | At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village . |
| 24 | The hospital management insists that everything was done under proper nursing supervision . |
| 25 | The first two figures revealed that everyone was looking to the farm to be financially viable . |
| 26 | Had she sensed that anything was going on beneath the conventional exchange ? |
| 27 | She could see his old confidence flooding back as he began to realize that everything was working out very conveniently … . |
| 28 | It did n't take Matron long to realize that something was going on and put a stop to it . ’ |
| 29 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 30 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |