Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's like this … their church owns the property , an ’ it turned out there 's a heap o' genuine folk in the city end of the organisation , who 'd no idea what wuz goin' on out here . |
| 2 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 3 | You couldn ’ even prophesy your own death , when it wuz standin' right in front of you . |
| 4 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 5 | If it wuz me lyin' there , my Ruthie 'd be ransackin' the house lookin' fer the insurance policies , t'check they wuz payed up t'date . |
| 6 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 7 | Thence to the Chamber , where the bodies were stacked carefully and , in my view , counter-intuitively , with babies and children at the base of the pile , then the women and the elderly , and then the men . |
| 8 | Don Peters knew when he went to the podium that the odds were stacked heavily against him gaining the support of Nate Cocello and the committee . |
| 9 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 10 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 11 | The odds were stacked too heavily against him . |
| 12 | Ace glanced around , noting the clay bottles and pots sealed with wax that were stacked together in rickety cupboards . |
| 13 | This is a large village with earthworks on the periphery which were excavated initially by David Hall in advance of redevelopment for houses . |
| 14 | Within seconds of each other , the two remaining freighters were ripped apart in great swathes of flame , sending white hot metal and sprays of burning oil through the cavern . |
| 15 | Bollards , decks and railings were ripped up . |
| 16 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 17 | The floorboards of the house were ripped up , and there they were . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was better in the days when the stars were ripped off , fucked about , had no grip on their affairs . |
| 19 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 20 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
| 21 | These were lengthened selectively for a limited-stop service after ten new trailers were ordered for delivery in 1960 . |
| 22 | By now we were careering round some Kentish country lanes near Swanley . |
| 23 | A band of children were careering about , playing tig . |
| 24 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 25 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 26 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 27 | Most British coalfields were developed away from established population centres and required the provision of housing for miners recruited from elsewhere . |
| 28 | At the same time , increasing interest in language led to a succession of BEd courses with strong language components in Colleges of Education ( work in the Birmingham area , led by Professor John Sinclair , part of which is described in Mary Willes ' paper on pp. xx-xx , was particularly notable , but similar innovations were developed elsewhere ) . |
| 29 | New roads were developed soon after the arrival of the railway but fortunately the present recreation ground overlooking the sea was preserved from building . |
| 30 | Agronomic techniques were developed rather later than mechanical ones , following the identification of the importance of rainsplash as a major element in the erosion process . |