Example sentences of "reply [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formal shouts of challenge and reply were made between the guards on the watchtowers and the approaching horsemen , and a moment later there were hooves clattering in the yard . |
| 2 | England in reply were dismissed for 454 , with Les Ames ( 137 ) and ‘ Gubby ’ Allen ( 122 ) putting on an eighth-wicket partnership of 246 , which still stands as a Test record for that wicket . |
| 3 | Instead a reply was sent from the Department of the Environment who have the job of implementing existing Conservative policy . |
| 4 | A copy of this was forwarded for our attention in early March and a reply was sent on 24 March , a copy of which is enclosed herewith . |
| 5 | Ward 's reply was lost in the sound of the engine , and when I opened my eyes again we were bumping along the bank of what looked like an old Inca canal . |
| 6 | This prompted some quips during which Vanessa 's reply was lost . |
| 7 | His reply was to give her a sharp pull forward and then a shove in the back , which knocked her to her knees . |
| 8 | The reply was murmured into the string of turquoise shark 's teeth she wore round her neck . |
| 9 | The old man 's surprised reply was tinged with pleasure . |
| 10 | No reply was received but the group later heard that Bashir had been released . |
| 11 | A letter requesting help was sent to Ringway , near Manchester , where airborne troops in Britain were trained , but no reply was received . |
| 12 | No reply was received from the Conservative Party . |
| 13 | A reply was received but again no luck . |
| 14 | Enquiries were made into the feasibility of ferrying Spitfires into this tiny field but the same reply was received from all contacted who were unanimous in replying that the airfield was too small to accommodate a Spitfire landing . |
| 15 | In 90 cases , no reply was received . |
| 16 | The first inkling that anything was wrong came when Prestatyn station box rang Chester Control to query the foreign engine running through his platform , but it was out of section before the reply was received . |
| 17 | A reply was received from D.M. McBain , the secretary of Baberton Golf Club stating , ‘ The litter which contributes to this unsightly area is discarded by residents and not members of the Golf Club . |
| 18 | Before the finance company 's reply was received , the trader allowed the customer to take delivery of the car ( together with its registration document ) . |
| 19 | Richard 's reply was to send an army to occupy Lectoure , the chief town of the viscounty , until in mid-August the recalcitrant heir came to heel , did homage and in return was dubbed a knight by his overlord . |
| 20 | Daak 's reply was drowned in the roar of his chainsword . |
| 21 | An emollient reply was drafted for me to send back . |
| 22 | W HEN Callaghan returned , tanned but tired , on January 11 from a Caribbean summit he was asked about the state of crisis and his tetchy reply was paraphrased in the tabloid headlines as ‘ Crisis — What Crisis ? ’ |
| 23 | His reply was measured and strong . |
| 24 | Selwyn 's reply was interrupted by Renee Nelmes 's shrill voice as she yelled out of the bar room window at two boys who were playing on the roof of the concrete pillbox built in the far comer of the pub 's front lawn . |
| 25 | A formal reply was delivered to Gorbachev in Moscow on March 19 by a Lithuanian Supreme Council delegation led by Algirdas Brazauskas ( the independent Lithuanian Communist Party leader and formerly Lithuania 's President , and since March 17 a Deputy Premier in the new Lithuanian government ) . |
| 26 | The government 's reply was contained in a white paper — Cmnd. 8616 : Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Civil Service . |
| 27 | When Narkomzem handed out a questionnaire with 226 questions at an All-Russian Congress of Agricultural Organizations , a single reply was returned . |
| 28 | John Major 's still in Malaysia but a reply was promised . |
| 29 | But Ford 's only reply was to clutch his ribs and stagger towards the parapet . |
| 30 | His reply was to trail his fingers caressingly along her bare forearm , raising the hairs on her skin and her temperature . |