Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already they were aroused and she longed for the water against her overheated skin to caress and tease her further and she longed to plunge in beside Fernando and for him to … |
| 2 | However , discussion revealed that possible rewards were presently available to Olwyn ; all her toys , favourite TV programmes , foods and so on were given when she asked for them , irrespective of her behaviour . |
| 3 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 5 | Beside the helicopter pad a group of people were gathered and she jogged towards them . |
| 6 | This was where the offices of the English Department and several lecture-rooms were situated when I arrived in 1957 , twenty years after Philby . |
| 7 | A girl of ten told me that children in her school were punished if they spoke in their own language . |
| 8 | In this work Moscovici showed how concepts such as ‘ neurosis ’ were altered as they passed from intellectual circles to common consciousness , and , moreover , this passage changed common consciousness . |
| 9 | However , new things were to come as we departed on the tiny ferry to Værøy , the penultimate island in the Lofoten chain . |
| 10 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 11 | Samantha Cardwell , 19 , was originally accused of making threats to kill and to damage property , but these charges were dropped when she appeared before Colchester magistrates yesterday . |
| 12 | His buttocks were clenched as he moved towards her . |
| 13 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 14 | During the ten or so years leading up to the inauguration of Channel Four in 1982 many proposals were considered but there seemed to be a degree of agreement amongst those favouring a novel form of organization that allocating the ‘ fourth channel ’ to the commercial sector would only |
| 15 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 16 | But at that time Langer and Graham were bogeying and they had to birdie the last in the finish to force a playoff . |
| 17 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 18 | But only those people who are serious enough about birds to keep daily diaries will have recorded the last dates birds were seen before they departed to their winter quarters . |
| 19 | You see , we were coasting when I went to sleep ; I was floating , held by my seat belt . |
| 20 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 21 | She knew her hands were trembling as she fiddled with a pen on the desk . |
| 22 | These and many offers of assistance came in , were collected and them fitted by Ted Willoughby into Sugar . |
| 23 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |
| 24 | My well-worn schoolboy shoes were polished until they shone like glass . |
| 25 | The forces that had called forth a great preacher like Griffith were passing and he needed to be taken out of the limelight . |
| 26 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 27 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 28 | I would say that they were accurate when they were produced and there produced on the basis of accuracy at the time and they would be reviewed after the first financial period |
| 29 | At the moment her eyes were coaxing as they turned on Alain , but when she had looked at Jenna there had been a coldness that was quickly hidden . |
| 30 | All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward . |