Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The test papers were given out and we had an hour to complete all three sections , involving general commonsense , and basic maths and language questions in our respective tongues . |
| 2 | His R/T went u/s as they were taxying out and he called for control to stop " Jock " Calder ( his Deputy ) and tell him to get out of his aircraft and hand it over to Johnny 's crew , " Jock " overheard this plea , switched off his R/T , took-off and led the sortie , but was never forgiven . |
| 3 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 4 | Up to the late 1950s , few infants born with spina bifida aperta were treated actively and there was a wish , usually realised , that they would die . |
| 5 | The evenings were drawing out and it was not yet dark but the hall of Moorlake was shadowy and insubstantial in the twilight . |
| 6 | The stag 's eyes were rolled back and its nostrils were clotted with blood . |
| 7 | Well there 's one down er , Waka drive , and erm , and once we were driving up and I thought ooh it 's another and a King Charles . |
| 8 | We were driving around and I seen these two young lads in a car and I says , ‘ They look a bit young to be driving that . ’ |
| 9 | Tests were carried out but it was decided to operate before the results of the tests were known . |
| 10 | The following week tests were carried out and I went with Dad to watch the Brigade endeavouring to pump water to the roof of Blooms the Drapers on The Canal — possibly the City 's tallest building . |
| 11 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Me and my sister and my uncle — my sister , who 's a scientist , right ? — we were walking along and we saw this light go across the sky , then it stopped and made this complete square , then it was gone . ’ |
| 13 | and we were walking along and there 's all these daffodils so I went and picked one and I give it to her . |
| 14 | A pig and a chicken were walking together and they saw a huge sign advertising scrambled eggs and bacon . |
| 15 | I turned round to go , but things were blurring again and I misjudged the turn and banged my head against the edge of the door . |
| 16 | This result was particularly striking when junctions were considered individually and it became clear that this relationship was at least partly independent of the amount of time spent at the junction , number of vehicles seen and the judgment of estimated risk made at the same time . |
| 17 | The responses we received to the consultation document were considered carefully and my officials discussed the issues raised with the auditing practices board and with other interested parties in the regulated sectors . |
| 18 | Already bodies littered the ground at his feet , but the mercenaries were pressing in and he was backing away , the mad fury still burning in his eye but something else there now as well : a realisation of defeat . |
| 19 | And if I may just , that 's the last thing I need to say is the Christmas Fair dates somehow were muddled up and somebody put the wrong dates to the day , it 's Wednesday the sixteenth and Thursday the seventeenth . |
| 20 | ‘ When you went to sleep , you were coasting along and everything was just floating . |
| 21 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 22 | Fortunately , the languages were written down and they are well preserved . |
| 23 | The document argued that a school would be more effective in achieving its aims if they were written down and it suggested six possible aims expressed at a high level of generality , for example : to develop lively enquiring minds … ; to acquire the knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world . |
| 24 | We used to have to use a generator for our electricity and that used to go off at ten o'clock at night so if there was an operation that needed doing , there were two car batteries that were turned on and you used to have to do it by those . |
| 25 | And they come out and they sort of were looking around and there was a load of cars here . |
| 26 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 27 | My eyes were puffed up and my face was covered with red spots . |
| 28 | One of these er , I suppose it 'd be a ballpoint or whatever you call it and this , I 've still got it , it says on the Queen Elizabeth , see , and er , you see , we said , we said , well never mind very much , we can have something a snack afterwards and so we stayed on there from eleven o'clock in the morning until three in the afternoon , you see , and er er and we were wandering around and we saw the dining room , we saw the captain 's table and er , you know it was , and , and then we looked along one deck , we were high up , and down below there were rows of , rows of lifeboats in case you see |
| 29 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 30 | They reckon arrests were made down but they were down at Beskett Station and they made a couple inside the ground , but I think they were just people running on the pitch you know , they were over enthusiastic . |