Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was that he fell in love . |
| 2 | Although Mr X was a director of the ‘ bank ’ , his defence was that he acted in good faith ; indeed , said the defence , such was his faith in the word of his associates that he had invested , and lost , his own money in the venture , always acting on the advice of his colleagues ' , without ever questioning it . |
| 3 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 4 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 5 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 6 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 7 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 8 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 9 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 10 | Indeed , one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum . |
| 11 | I remember one night he come here and ooh it was a hard hard frost and he was and he slept in the barn , and he went in and he wanted a dram of water to have his drink through the night , and it was hard hard frost , and the water trough for the horses was down here , of course it when he |
| 12 | Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 . |
| 13 | This was because they purchased in bulk , often for delivery to a central depot and placed large orders well in advance of the delivery date , thus enabling the manufacturer to organise production more efficiently . |
| 14 | This time the interruption came from a man in the front row of the audience , a tall man who was leaning forward , and George looked at him , feeling less hostility than the woman who had shouted at him earlier had created ; and then he realized it was because he spoke in an educated voice . |
| 15 | I know I was when I worked in fruit packing , it 's like someone drops an orange , Urgh urgh urgh ! |