Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Party leaders were concerned by the ‘ two for the price of one ’ sales pitch Hillary was using as she stumped around the country , often leading her husband into the fray rather than following . |
| 2 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 3 | It was raining and they travelled on the bus in silence . |
| 4 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 5 | The letter was dated almost a week previously , and as Merrill read it she realised with dismay that Richard was already in the area and was suggesting that they meet in the lounge of Frobishers ' at seven o'clock on Saturday — this evening . |
| 6 | And that she said was repossessed and it went for seventy five thousand . |
| 7 | Crosby 's faith in Gray was justified when he volleyed in his early goal after keeper Lee Butler punched out Gordon Armstrong 's free kick . |
| 8 | The urgency of coming out was building and I felt like a firecracker about to go off . |
| 9 | Her mother thought it was better for her not to be at home as there was not much space , so the following week they saw the social worker and it was arranged that she go to a house run by the Catholic anti-abortion organisation LIFE . |
| 10 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 11 | He denies Mrs Dixon was sacked because she complained to the health authority about the new working arrangements . |
| 12 | The conference was wrecked before it started by the " U2 " incident . |
| 13 | But his three-second , 89-metre flight ended in disaster when his £700 glider was wrecked as it crashed into the sea . |
| 14 | All the family felt that Stephen had been hustled into the engagement by Claire , who was a hard , devious girl , and were relieved when it was broken when he returned from Newcastle . |
| 15 | It was touching that they cared about you . ’ |
| 16 | A meeting had been arranged with Saddam Hussein on January 8 , but our plane was delayed and we arrived in Baghdad too late for our appointment . |
| 17 | Bryan Robson 's injury , a legacy of previous combat , was diagnosed when he had to be substituted 20 minutes from the end of the first leg at Portsmouth only 13 days ago . |
| 18 | In 1777 , however , he was packed off to India again , this time to Calcutta , where , with the exception of an interval of two years in London managing a parliamentary petition , he was to remain until he retired in 1808 . |
| 19 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 20 | All tiredness was forgotten as she gazed at her daughter . |
| 21 | This outstanding man had been seconded from the Royal Welch Fusiliers to serve as Consul at Adana in Turkey , where he behaved with courage and firmness during the Armenian massacres , rescuing several hundred people before he himself was wounded as he rode round the town . |
| 22 | The black gloom of his anger was effaced when he stepped into the open air . |
| 23 | The sentence was lifted after he submitted in January 1631 , but by March Laud had found further evidence against him . |
| 24 | And then miraculously the weight of his body was lifted and she heard with overwhelming relief the deep , harsh tones of Luke 's voice . |
| 25 | Anyway , I was shattered and I went to bed . |
| 26 | Her voice was muffled when she crawled under the oilcloth-covered table to search for Quimper bits . |
| 27 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 28 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 30 | In the first legal definition , in the Crofter 's Holdings ( Scotland ) Act of 1886 , it was added that he resides on his holding , the annual rent of which does not exceed £30 in money , and which is situated in a ‘ crofting parish ’ . |