Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 2 | If the MD asks you What if interest rates drop to 6% , you can use the scenario manager to show how the end result would differ from the figures you have calculated — and throw in a few other interest rates as well , just to impress him/her and make that rise you were after a touch more attainable . |
| 3 | Suddenly , Rachel saw Tiger Balm Gardens and realised they were on Tai Hang Road . |
| 4 | The borough council 's new administration agreed 12 new objectives last summer designed to improve the quality of services and ensure they were in line with what residents wanted . |
| 5 | On a broader canvas , many of us can think of moments of encounter , of blessing , of poetry , of art , of music , of sunsets and dawns which were to us deeply sacramental . |
| 6 | Mike met his brother 's eyes and saw they were like steel . |
| 7 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 8 | Maybe you just had dinner with her , and wish you were with her now . |
| 9 | Monica Vitti , whose film with Antonioni , The Red Desert , an enigmatic portrayal of capitalist alienation , had left most of its audience little wiser but feeling they were into something good , fought her way up the stairs with Antonioni , then working on Blow Up . |
| 10 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |