Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be an exaggeration to say I suffered from morning sickness , but my suspicions were certainly aroused when I began to feel a little queasy in the early part of the day . |
| 2 | My nerves were really jangling when we got to the 17th , the Road Hole . |
| 3 | Her defences were already activated and registering red alert , and he had n't said a word yet ! |
| 4 | Their clothes were old and full of holes , their houses were badly built and falling down . |
| 5 | She did n't trust the captain , so we were there to ensure her vases were carefully loaded and no pilfering went on . |
| 6 | Their eyes were still meshed and Kath found she was unable to look away . |
| 7 | Her eyes were almost closing when she finally drew up outside the villa . |
| 8 | Her legs were slightly parted and her toes curled convulsively , as though trying to find some support to relieve her vertiginous predicament . |
| 9 | She was well under five feet in height and her legs were terribly bowed because of rickets . |
| 10 | Her legs were still trembling but she was pulling herself together as quickly as she could and she had to admit that his quiet actions helped . |
| 11 | Their addresses were well received and the publicity they attracted was so beneficial that the BDA in 1976 , by way of follow-up , paid for a lecture tour by Dr. David Denton , another American educationist , whose public meetings in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Carlisle , Newcastle , Doncaster and Oxford were a sell-out and an outstanding success . |
| 12 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |
| 13 | The fact that their discoveries were either ignored or did not bring their just rewards was partially responsible for inducing a conspiracy mentality . |
| 14 | However , many of its buildings were poorly built and fuel-inefficient . |
| 15 | But their troops were badly trained and inexperienced and rain and fog turned the ground into a quagmire , which prevented the use of their aircraft and impeded the advance of their lorries and tanks . |
| 16 | This was particularly noticeable tonight , for her cheeks were deeply flushed and her hazel eyes were dancing with excitement . |
| 17 | A soviet ( or governing council ) representing each of the twelve nahijes ( districts ) within the pashalik was established , but its powers were vaguely defined and it became an instrument which Karadjordje could use or ignore as he felt fit . |
| 18 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 19 | The presence of its members was normally tolerated because they supported the industrial action of the TUC , 1,200 of them being arrested during the dispute , and because some of its leading figures , such as Robin Page Arnot who did sterling work in organizing the councils of action in the North East , were active in the dispute . |
| 20 | ‘ The jury cast their vote by secret ballot and their deliberations were meticulously checked and tripled checked and were absolutely in accordance with the rules , ’ Mr Byrne said yesterday . |
| 21 | ‘ The jury cast their vote by secret ballot and their deliberations were meticulously checked and tripled checked and were absolutely in accordance with the rules , ’ Mr Byrne said yesterday . |
| 22 | Private rooms became almost a thing of the past , for closets went out of fashion ; bedrooms , which had formerly existed on all floors , went upstairs , but , although their dressing-rooms were often furnished as boudoirs , these were out-of-bounds from after breakfast , except in times of illness . |
| 23 | Her hands were deeply sunburned and so was her throat ; the collar-bones within the gaping shirt were dark as treacle . |
| 24 | Her hands were actually shaking and she would not have believed she could have got herself into this sort of state so quickly . |
| 25 | Teddies sent by Mrs B to her children were never received and never returned . |
| 26 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 27 | Wesleyans had smarted most from criticisms that their ministers were neither educated nor cultured and admitted the need for a ‘ cultivated as well as a consecrated ministry ’ , a ministry of young men of ‘ piety and culture ’ with ‘ a more thorough training … and a more complete equipment for the Ministry ’ . |
| 28 | An attempt to look at the overall picture was made by the Royal Commission on Legal Services : its recommendations were widely criticised and largely ignored . |
| 29 | Tied in with encouraging half year figures , Headland announced a £11m acquisition and its shares were temporarily suspended while an offer document is printed . |
| 30 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |