Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 2 | Viscount Kilmuir L.C. stated , at p. 596 , that the pursuers might recover whatever sum they might prove was in excess of such a charge as would have avoided undue discrimination against them , and he supported this by reference , inter alia , to Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 H.L. 226 . |
| 3 | Last night as I 'm going to sleep all I could smell was like ashtray , you know ! |
| 4 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 5 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 6 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 7 | The only linkage he could see was with Colonel Smith . |
| 8 | The only light he could see was in the lobby , and the only person in the lobby was an anxious girl with a clipboard who was waiting to greet him personally , and who seemed personally grateful for his skill in getting himself found and driven there by the company 's chauffeur . |
| 9 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 10 | From the very beginning , the Minoans were in contact with people of other cultures , and the only way that contact could happen was by sea . |
| 11 | The masher dodged round Neil , lifted his fists , and said in what Neil could tell was by no means a confident manner , ‘ Throw that away , and put up yer dukes like a man ! ’ |
| 12 | The only mortgage I 'd get was for twenty odd thousand . |
| 13 | This is only the tip , all the facts I could get were in the paper . ’ |
| 14 | The only work I could find was with Clive 's main sharp-end competitor , a school offering short courses to businessmen on company accounts . |
| 15 | The problems that this could cause were to be demonstrated all too vividly in 1968 . |
| 16 | What you ought to do was to said to him give me a deposit |
| 17 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 18 | The limitation which used to apply was with regard to the value of the action . |
| 19 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 20 | What would happen was by no means certain in 1216 . |
| 21 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 22 | How long this would continue was in doubt as economic pressures increased . |
| 23 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |
| 24 | The first house that I can remember was on Road . |