Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't wondered where her clothes were when he 'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term . |
| 2 | Carl said he , he looked er well er , his face did , it were very he 's got a very poxy skin . |
| 3 | There was still a job to do , and although it might not seem much in comparison to the past , it was all he had left . |
| 4 | It was all he had left to bind him to reality . |
| 5 | £20 was all he 'd got for one beast . |
| 6 | Once the hunting season was over he had gone straight off to Ireland to fish , and then , on the outbreak of war , had promptly rejoined his regiment , and as their colonel-in-chief had made several sorties to France during the next three years . |
| 7 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 8 | The next place he tried , the loneliest , was the rear turret , and that was once he had fathomed out how to work the heating system . |
| 9 | When the worst of the storm was past he had looked out and seen with astonishment a flame blossom from the top of the Tower . |
| 10 | Before that night was out he had surrendered himself to Christ . |
| 11 | Jean-Claude told me that is was here he had wished Montaine to be laid , not in the familiar old churchyard within a stone 's throw of the house . |
| 12 | Off balance , she had to release her grip in order to save herself , and before she knew what he was about he had tossed the pitchfork into the next stall , and kicked her feet out from under her . |
| 13 | ‘ Be quiet ! ’ he ordered , and before she knew what he was about he had snatched at her white cap and pulled it off . |
| 14 | That was how he became rehabilitated . |
| 15 | This was how he had felt , yesterday , the days before yesterday , and intermittently in all the thousands of days since childhood . |
| 16 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 17 | That was how he had got the job , even though he was another unemployed nineteen year old . |
| 18 | That was how he had come to go on board the Santa Maria del Sud . |
| 19 | It was where he had taken a vivacious Puerto Rican paediatrician , Carmen Rodriguez , on their first date . |
| 20 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 21 | This was where Joe had brought Lucy , what seemed like an age before , and this was where he 'd lost her . |
| 22 | The little black box was where he 'd left it . |
| 23 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 24 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 25 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 26 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 27 | That was when he had met Dinah , who was to become his wife . |
| 28 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 29 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 30 | Whether it was when he 'd scored 10 or at some other delicate fulcrum in his innings that the Smallholder decided that he 'd sufficiently built his innings and could start unleashing his shots I know not , but the incontrovertible fact was that by tea he had 34 to his name , including five boundaries . |