Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was keept there for seven months , and so my edication was worth no less than three shillin and sixpence — there 's for " ee ! |
| 2 | I do n't want to sound too flame-eyed and low-blink-rate about it — and , all right , I know I 'm a real simp in many areas — but I 'd say I was way ahead of Tod on this basic question of human difference . |
| 3 | Jackson , who earned a total of £40,000 , said : ‘ I was pedestrian away from the blocks and that cost me vital hundredths of a second . |
| 4 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 5 | I glanced towards the garage entrance which was ankle deep in litter . |
| 6 | She could see that he was at a loss for words — which was reason enough for her to be pleased with her impetuous decision . |
| 7 | In addition , the Board of Inland Revenue must be indemnified by the people who were partners immediately before the first change , and by anyone joining the partnership on that or a later change , against any loss of tax arising on a partner 's claim that the election does not strictly comply with the provisions of s 113(2) and that the cessation basis should have been applied . |
| 8 | S 113(2) requires the election to be signed jointly in respect of each change by all those who were partners both before and after the change . |
| 9 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 10 | ‘ But you were friends even in those early days ? ’ |
| 11 | You were hour away from college . |
| 12 | ‘ Daddy tells me that you were apprentices together at United Motors , ’ Vicky said . |
| 13 | The man had plainly not left British shores and London itself was worlds apart from where he came from . |
| 14 | We were second again in a non-championship race at Reims , where I indulged in my habit of lurking at corners taking pictures of the front suspension . |
| 15 | We were inches away at times . |
| 16 | In the two decades between the outbreak of World War II and the poverty studies of the early 1960s there were changes both in patterns of female economic activity and in the nature of occupational pension provision . |
| 17 | Yes , there were gateways here in this Castle , where midnight footsteps trod purposefully down the halls … |
| 18 | Benjamin cursed the darkness but , as in any good household , there were boxes right inside the door containing rushlights and candles . |
| 19 | Suddenly there were footsteps below on the gravel . |
| 20 | For instance , when Billy Graham visited Britain in 1990 , several weeks before he arrived there were posters all over London with the initials L.l.F.E. — what was it ? |
| 21 | There were bones all over the place . |
| 22 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , there were problems also in the definition of specialization . |
| 23 | There were reasons enough for that dreadful thought . |
| 24 | Psychiatric they have erm not been there were proposals originally from the Conservative group to discontinue that service , but as part of the erm negotiations that took place that was withdrawn , but there is a , I think , a ten thousand pound efficiency cut to be made in the P S W service , so it is not being cut , but erm the sum is being reduced , and it will be self-financing out of efficiency measures . |
| 25 | There were fears already of the likelihood of war with Germany , and the military performance in the Boer War caused new fears that Britain might face military as well as economic defeat at the hands of her chief rival . |
| 26 | THERE were compensations yesterday for Joe Grima , the New Zealand forward deeply upset on Monday after being struck off Widnes 's register , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 27 | For example , when Lok looks across to the island in the burgeoning spring , a narratorial simile compares the haze of early spring buds to smoke : " there were buds everywhere on the island too , drifts of them like clouds of bright green smoke " ( p. 101 ) . |
| 28 | The official last car was E/3 Class , No. 1941 , which left Purley terminus at 11.24 p.m. crowded to capacity and there were crowds all along the road . |
| 29 | There were players now on every hole except the first two . |
| 30 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |