Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they were gazing up here quite absently and speculatively , as I did on Monday . |
| 2 | Events were shaping up faster and worse than I could have expected . |
| 3 | This gave him a pang of disappointment ; however , in view of the providence they were enjoying in so many other respects , he did not allow the feeling to pierce him long . |
| 4 | Got to the other end and I think we were unloading in about an hour and a half or so . |
| 5 | The social services managers were two or three years behind those in the NHS in developing contracts , although they were catching up fast . |
| 6 | So they , the pursuers , were catching up somewhat . |
| 7 | It was a name that would swiftly give way to his , once his heroism and navigational skill were recognized back home . |
| 8 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 9 | Criticism and praise were given out non-objectively , ie at the whim of the leader . |
| 10 | They were given out yesterday , Philip . |
| 11 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 12 | Helicopter traffic to and from the rigs and foreign flights to Norway and Holland were building up rapidly as a result of the oil boom , and with the small numbers of customs staff on shore our crew was often asked to help out while we were in port . |
| 13 | ‘ It was incredible … barriers were crashing down all around . |
| 14 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 15 | Do you know that you , your family , your wife , your grandfather , whoever , would n't be able to get this sort of treatment in the hospital they were treated in before . |
| 16 | In reality , the stories were recalled over only a short period of time and major event alterations did not occur , but both deaf and hearing people recalled the main episodes equally well and there was no significant difference in the number of events recalled . |
| 17 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 18 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 19 | So if I were to go out tomorrow and see one and it was nice |
| 20 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 21 | If I were to go in now , thought Rupert , I should attract far more attention that if I 'd gone earlier . |
| 22 | But the undeniable fact was that we were trawling in previously loyal BBC viewers who simply preferred the way we presented the news . |
| 23 | The nights were drawing in fast . |
| 24 | Old-generation units were patched up even further beyond their expected life span . |
| 25 | People were hanging about outside until 2am anyway , luckily there was n't any trouble . ’ |
| 26 | The resources were broken down also into groups er , a gang per room . |
| 27 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 28 | And er the masters used to humiliate them to break them down you see and when they thought they were broken down enough |
| 29 | The words were broken off abruptly when the man saw Isabel sharing the saddle with fitzAlan . |
| 30 | gate way down to the embankment , were jogging down there tonight , I 'll have a look at it mm on about it |