Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [art] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottle of PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG was kept in the cupboard in the bathroom , and underneath the title on the label were written the words Caution , this is peroxide . |
| 2 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 3 | The communists ' final insult , says Mr Geremek , was to pinch the words ‘ social democracy ’ for their new title . |
| 4 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 5 | He uses a set formula : ‘ this was to fulfil the words spoken through the prophet ’ ( Matt. |
| 6 | She pointed to the pulpit where the parson was beginning the words of the service . |
| 7 | She thought she was crying the words aloud , but all that came back to her was her voice — flat , low , saying , ‘ She 's my aunt . |
| 8 | Like every other parent in Bootle 's Strand shopping centre yesterday , she was taking the words of Merseyside Police 's Det Supt Albert Kirkby very seriously . |
| 9 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 10 | The task was to repeat the words " double , double , double " over and over again , and it was used on the assumption that , while vocalising , judgements about words would not be made on the basis of their phonological codes . |
| 11 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 12 | On one of the brick piers was inscribed the words , ‘ The poor are with ye always ’ . |
| 13 | According to the historian Ranke , the real heir to the Emperor Henry VI was not his son , the future Frederick II , but Pope Innocent III ; he , in fact , was echoing the words of a contemporary writer , Gervase of Tilbury , who called Innocent " the true emperor " ( verus imperator ) . |
| 14 | He was breathing the words against her skin , his voice muffled by the folds of cotton he had pushed aside to enable his mouth to cherish the tender apices of her pale breasts . |
| 15 | On behalf of the defendant it was argued that some limitation had to be placed on the word " practice " and the natural and proper limitation was to imply the words " as medical practitioners " . |
| 16 | The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’ |
| 17 | All he had to do was say the words . |