Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they were properly divorced taking him back just as er a lover . |
| 2 | They were slowly trying to destroy him . |
| 3 | There is no suggestion that Chief Whip Mr Ryder or his Whips Office colleagues were guilty of this particular brutish behaviour , but many other Euro rebels complained that they were mercilessly browbeaten to make them withdraw their opposition . |
| 4 | By the time it had found it , a lot of people in the old movies and new news business were shouting very angrily at one another down telephones , and some of them were feverishly trying to give it new instructions . |
| 5 | The new era having dawned with the introduction of the blast furnace from France in 1496 , French experts were naturally recruited to install them . |
| 6 | Defendant Derek Anderson told police the cocks were just fighting amongst themselves , the men were only trying to stop them . |
| 7 | You were only allowed to have it down to just below the bottom of your ears — which looked absolutely daft . |
| 8 | Among these was the USA , but their delegation saw the obvious sense in the proposal and while they were not authorised to approve it they would not oppose it but would abstain instead . |
| 9 | The only problem was that we were not trying to promote it . |
| 10 | Many of his fellow British actors — throughout the years — only affected to despise the movies : they themselves were not asked to do them or , if asked , played minor roles or did not get the hang of it at all . |
| 11 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 12 | All car controls are in place but subjects were not required to use them in this experiment . |
| 13 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 14 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 15 | And erm they said well you 've got to come off it , you know , were not going to do you this time , but you 've got to come straight , stop doing it all , erm , cos you 've been reported and your on the Social Security . |
| 16 | After the thunderstorms of the morning , i hoped we were not going to need it in the improving afternoon weather . |
| 17 | This time the Quakers were not going to wear it . |
| 18 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 19 | The shapechangers were not going to offer her any protection . |
| 20 | Women from orthodox families told me that they were not allowed to wear them . |
| 21 | So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more . |
| 22 | Where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes ? |
| 23 | They were different from other young workers and they were not allowed to forget it . |
| 24 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 25 | When the Indian maid and the house-boy were finally called to remove it all , we were satiated . |
| 26 | Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research and four were finally selected to carry it out in Swindon , Kirkaldy , Liverpool and Sheffield . |
| 27 | We were just going to ask him about this proposed pay rise that 's all . |
| 28 | I thought you were just going to make it Christmas presents ? |
| 29 | and everybody was clamouring to know how much they were going to get and er we were always trying to head them off by saying that er , theirs was next on the list and er |
| 30 | Moreover , if God were always intervening to get us out of difficulties or dangers , we should never learn to become responsible people . |