Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 2 | There , they were brilliant and I felt as though they were just starting to work when finished . |
| 3 | I wanted to go across to the hill and search for him , but we were tired and I remembered that Sir Henry might be in danger . |
| 4 | There was only one peg that was ice-free and I predicted that if anything was caught at all that peg would be the last to produce . |
| 5 | I asked if it was foreign and she said that it was . ’ |
| 6 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 7 | The exhibition was crowded and I felt that , really , this was for Hungarians , as though I were intruding on a private grief . |
| 8 | His expression was stony and she knew that he blamed her . |
| 9 | Well I said to Diane you know , I did n't laugh , I did n't think it was funny , I thought it was sad and I said but he needs help , if Vaughan 's you know , he 's got two sons , but Mark 's a bit hopeless and he was at Oxford anyway , I said surely somebody should go and get him some some treatment , sanitation . |
| 10 | and I phoned one night late and , it was late and I phoned for I wanted her to come home , and I was it was quarter to twelve and said she 's not home yet . |
| 11 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 12 | He took the piece of paper away with him , the name filled in above the pre-signed certificate , and showed it to Barnett who was pleased and who believed that it was worth having . |
| 13 | He was unarmed and I hoped that he might be one of the interpreters . |
| 14 | The relief was immense and she wondered if she plunged her brain into the water it would help too . |
| 15 | Edward was pale and she wondered if he 'd been eating pork crackling again which did n't agree with him , but he did n't seem sick . |
| 16 | He showed how he planted the young trees in pot-holes where the soil was richer and she saw that after all there was nothing haphazard about the planting ; it had the symmetry of necessity . |
| 17 | He was new and he joined after the project submission had gone in , but at a stage where it needed to be implemented and he sewed on to the thing straight away . |
| 18 | The radio was silent and I realized that it was coming from outside . |
| 19 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |