Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we arrested people , if we arrested them and if they were in the police station for many hours , the only food that they were given was supplied by Weavers Restaurant , just inside Street . |
| 2 | Moreover , its existence was completely at odds with the national trend for community care , since patients who were referred were brought to a location quite remote from the area in which they had lived . |
| 3 | The 400 or 500 councils of action which were formed were ridden with dispute and inefficiency . |
| 4 | Let's just sing shall we as we close , whilst were singing were gon na take up our morning offering , its number one ninety seven , one hundred and ninety seven an element of commitment in this song , one nine seven , well stand to sing . |
| 5 | Lords whose lands were included were bound by tenure to take part in the chase . |
| 6 | A 30 minute equilibration period , during which the samples were discarded was followed by six hours of collection . |
| 7 | Second , coordinators as a group were acutely conscious of the way their own success depended in large part upon how they and the practices they were promoting were regarded by existing staff in the schools where they were placed . |
| 8 | The god said that the place where their house and stable were built was plagued with evil influences . |
| 9 | However , the government 's threat to withhold payment on contracts with European companies if sanctions were imposed was discounted by many firms which had already encountered long delays in payment . |
| 10 | The ploughed field they were passing was speckled with brilliant-green shoots . |
| 11 | The selection procedure the forty-six weekenders were undergoing was devised in 1980 to recognize talent , wherever it came from . |
| 12 | Remembering that what we were experiencing was meant to be enjoyable left our wits spinning like a lawn sprinkler . |
| 13 | A UN helicopter attempting a reconnaissance mission to the area where the troops were seized was hit by Khmer Rouge gunfire on Dec. 2 . |
| 14 | But Suzy said there were all kinds of awards young people could get , particularly if what they were doing was connected with conservation — I was really surprised . |
| 15 | What you were doing was heading for the exit ! ’ |
| 16 | All they were doing was waiting for their Dad . |
| 17 | The report that I commissioned to get a debate going on why some schools were failing was commissioned from three people whose expertise has not been challenged and nor , as far as I know , have most of their conclusions . |
| 18 | All the other decisions that were taken were bound to be opposed by the local community , the local youth and community staff and so on . |
| 19 | Three pieces which were submitted were commended by the panel , although not purchased . |
| 20 | What parts of the church that were finished were damaged by the Hussites . |
| 21 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 22 | The four men who were killed were sent on a murder mission . |
| 23 | The small number of new Elizabethan and Jacobean churches that were constructed were built in the Perpendicular style , and , in order to assert the continuity of medieval and Reformed churches , they retained the compartmentalized lay-out of the Gothic buildings . |
| 24 | The narrow road they were following was overhung with oak and chestnut trees , their interlaced branches letting through thin , bright shafts of light that flickered and danced over the car as it passed underneath . |
| 25 | A junction where judgments were required was signalled by the experimenter sounding a tone when the vehicle was at the centre of the junction . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw babies flung out from windows and people who were burning were jumping for their lives . |
| 27 | The jails where the demonstrators were held were deluged with letters and Christmas food parcels . |
| 28 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 29 | The time for which the oesophageal pH was below 4 and 5 after the meal was consumed was calculated as a percentage of the total postprandial recording time . |
| 30 | But his plea for a four-month stay on the sewage ban while this search was completed was dismissed by David Mazzone , the federal judge overseeing the clean-up project , and rejected by a federal appeals court . |