Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were afraid to come too near the house , so he escaped . |
| 32 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 33 | With a statutory duty to promote standardisation , the nationalised Boards were willing to go ahead with these schemes , paying for the conversion of consumers ' apparatus as well as of their own mains , even where the returns to themselves were not adequate . |
| 34 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 35 | The largest companies told Mr Chiles they were willing to go along with his programme in the belief that they could compete . |
| 36 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
| 37 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 38 | It was a disappointing display and we were fortunate to come away with a point . |
| 39 | He said : ‘ I gambled today and we were fortunate to get away with it . |
| 40 | We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch . |
| 41 | Liverpool were content to hang on to their lead but manager Graeme Souness conceded : ‘ I said after Wednesday 's defeat by Spurs that we would play worse and win , and that was the case today . |
| 42 | They were content to lie there in the sun , and it was all as Cassie had wanted it to be . |
| 43 | Most of them would be unlikely to sponsor a wholesale reconstruction of the educational system and were content to work strenuously within the generous limits of the new Act of 1944 . |
| 44 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 45 | We were supposed to take off for Malta about 12 hours after leaving Gibraltar but , because of bad weather and ( I think ) intelligence reports about enemy activity around Sardinia and Sicily , we retraced our course and eventually took off about 36 hours from Gibraltar . |
| 46 | Hypocrisy entered this pattern of behaviour only in so far as the bourgeois women were supposed to remain entirely outside the game , and therefore in ignorance of what the men , and women other than themselves , were up to . |
| 47 | The Indians were supposed to look on at what was happening as if these two white men in skirts were barmy . |
| 48 | It was one of those uncomfortable collisions with discontent about housing and the quality of food which Ceauşescu 's aides were supposed to keep out of his itinerary . |
| 49 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 50 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 51 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 52 | They were accustomed to drop in on him between ten and eleven in the evening , when he could be an agreeable companion ; and he , who had spent so little of his life with women , surprised his colleagues by making friends with the celebrated actress Dorothy Tutin . |
| 53 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 54 | You were lucky to get away with that . |
| 55 | In fact , Gloucester were lucky to get away with that as Tim Smith only slotted the equalising penalty in the last minute . |
| 56 | I think we were lucky to get away with it , and lucky to get a Director like Waris Hussein who managed to create this very strange quality in the cavemen that made them so interesting . ’ |
| 57 | My view was obscured by a stupidly placed pillar but a Cov fan next to me muttered that they were lucky to get away with it . |
| 58 | United were lucky to get away with a draw . |
| 59 | We were lucky to get out of Stalingrad . |
| 60 | There were no set hours , no union to look after their interests and they were lucky to get out on a Saturday or Sunday to go to the chapel , or on certain special occasions to the cinema . |