Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though the very innermost lining of my already emptied stomach was violently detaching itself into long , coppery green strands of rejected bile . |
| 2 | The ironwork was now fitted and the chassis with its partly constructed body was taken some four hundred yards down the road into Farr 's Friary Lane Works where panels , seats , hoods and fittings were added . |
| 3 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 4 | The Champion steeplechaser was leading the field as usual … but his new found friend was n't far behind . |
| 5 | The Collector 's face had assumed an alert expression , for the Padre was now addressing the godparents ; but his still wandering mind was harrowed by the thought of the gentle , pious Mr Bradley of the Post Office department who , only the day before , had been deprived of the evening of his life , and the afternoon as well , come to that . |