Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Well , the River Police suggest that it was to weight the body enough to keep it under water , but not to sink it . |
| 2 | He did n't know that I was meaning the blood in his mouth and he said : ‘ You have bitten half your tongue off . ’ |
| 3 | They would scarcely need spies to discover that we were preparing the kind of fleet we would need to land an army across the Inner Sea . |
| 4 | ‘ I just wanted to know if you were carrying the case , that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 6 | Figure 9c shows the space which the same algorithm would explore if it were given the backwards version of the task . |
| 7 | Poor blighter was hanged and we were dancing the night away . |
| 8 | I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape . |
| 9 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
| 10 | Special thanks are due to Sarah Tooley , Senior Nurse at the WNAS , for her contributions to the menus and recipes and for her total support ; Rosa Fisher , for her ongoing support and optimism ; and to Jane Brooker , our wonderful Nanny , who kept our three children happy and occupied while we were burning the midnight oil . |
| 11 | The second , the second point was that while the J C B was down there we er erm in consultation erm the chairman of those committees , we removed the old concrete base which crumbled whilst we were digging the erm the t the trench for the water pipeline , it was actually crumbling away . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was . |
| 13 | I was never able to establish whether she was telling the truth — virtually all the hijras I talked to shrouded the facts of their lives in a thick wrap of fantasies — but she was certainly from a middle-class background and spoke fluent English . |
| 14 | Nests I found when I was clearing the garden , put the little eggs in and they 'd all gone cold . |
| 15 | While exploring the question of whether bees can use information about direction gathered on the flight back from the food , we transported foragers caught as they were leaving the hive for natural sources to an artificial feeder in the middle of a large car park hundreds of metres from the hive . |
| 16 | While this may seem a consolidation of his European realm and role , Charles could not have foreseen that he was to strengthen the future power of the papacy far more than that of his own lineage . |
| 17 | Likewise , in the Second World War , the Germans , perhaps because of their complacency , never realised that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 18 | He realized that he was supporting the weaker side , and was against the transfer of power to ‘ mere financiers and political economists ’ . |
| 19 | Encouraged by the thought , Mungo realized that he was forgetting the point of the search . |
| 20 | He realized that he was following the pattern of the streets , moving into the poor area of World 's End . |
| 21 | In all he found fifty-one trades which received girls as apprentices , many of which paid premiums comparable to those for boys , suggesting that they were to learn the craft . |
| 22 | ‘ When they realised that one was missing the others stopped as they were about to leave Hoxa Sound and waited for it to catch up , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 24 | I was suddenly startled to see that we were entering the town of Knock . |
| 25 | It is equally astonishing that the Germans never guessed that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 26 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 27 | Three ministers announced that they were leaving the Government at their own request : Lord Belstead ( Ulster ) ; Mr Tim Renton ( Arts Minister ) ; and Mr Alan Howarth ( Education ) . |
| 28 | A Chinese delegation , headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin , visited Brunei on April 10-13 , 1991 , after which the government announced that it was considering the matter of establishing diplomatic relations with China and wished to have economic and cultural exchanges . |
| 29 | On Nov. 25 the new coalition government announced that it was to close the prison in the north-western town of Eskisehir where human rights groups had alleged that torture of political prisoners took place . |
| 30 | On Feb. 16 , 1990 , the IMF announced that it was releasing the long delayed third tranche of 21,400,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=US$1.32182 as at Feb. 16 , 1990 ) of its 1986 three-year structural adjustment facility [ see pp. 35690 ; 36551 ] . |