Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , 10 patients were withdrawn because they either defaulted from follow up ( n=3 ) , all had moved away from the Sheffield area ) , or because they developed an adverse clinical event ( n=7 ) which led to a change in their treatment ( Table III ) . |
| 2 | Like all good scientists , he knew that one should not rush experiments , so a great deal of Italian red wine and a good few Sambucas were consumed before he finally tottered into a taxi and gave the driver ( with some difficulty ) his address . |
| 3 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 4 | Turbo-generators were added and it now also generates electricity . |
| 5 | At last when the man 's legs were freed and he too was carried out to the waiting ambulance , Rachel stood up and flexed her cramped muscles . |
| 6 | I I have feelings about it , I I I mean , my , generally my experience I do n't know I have n't discussed with other members but er , when I the panel that I er , allocated to erm and I was telephoned , could a make , and certain dates were made and I finally made one then I was told , oh no that 's not convenient ! |
| 7 | Thus local landowners were promised that they too would share in any bonanza the mining brought , and this promise ensured their acquiescence in the company 's prospecting operations . |
| 8 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
| 9 | Such ‘ feminising ’ factors have been foiled by two other inventions , that of separate sexes ( many animals and some plants have abandoned hermaphroditism , perhaps because half the hermaphrodites were feminised and it therefore paid the remainder to turn into pure males ) and genetic sex determination . |
| 10 | Three police cars were damaged as they effectively rammed the metro and brought it to a stop . |
| 11 | Police were alerted when they accidentally set off a smoke alarm . |
| 12 | It was hard to believe that most of these islands were populated and we often caught glimpses of island ferries plying industriously between lonely rockbound piers . |
| 13 | It was students demonstrating , as a result of which a number of them were arrested and I later learnt that a few were sentenced to be flogged . |
| 14 | The patients were asked whether they still had the pain and if so whether they had learnt to live with it . |
| 15 | His ambitions were fulfilled as he rightly claimed that his cars won more races than any other model . |
| 16 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 17 | Not only did one get a flash reflection thus ruining a sometimes good photograph but occasionally ‘ special effects ’ were obtained and I even managed to get a reflection of the camera in the photograph . |
| 18 | Moments later his suspicions were confirmed as it gradually slid open . |
| 19 | so that , when they have to go , they go very very fast and we were advised if we ever went on a bus to sit on the roof |
| 20 | Mr Onanuga told the other shop assistant a full 10 days before details of Mr Lamont 's credit card overspending were published that he personally served the Chancellor . |
| 21 | Like many other RAF servicemen he found himself stationed in Lincolnshire and after five years service his Lincolnshire bonds were established and he later moved to the areas into the more peaceful activity of a fitter in the malting industry . |
| 22 | The hero next day was Russell , defending for over five hours without giving a chance ; not bad for a man whose entry into the Test team was delayed because he supposedly could not bat . |
| 23 | It was claimed that he repeatedly called for the ‘ total westernisation of China ’ and incited people to ‘ change the true colour of the party ’ ( China Now , Winter 1986/87 : 6 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I was devastated because I really needed the job . |
| 25 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 26 | In fact , I was shattered when you never replied to my letter . ’ |
| 27 | A DOWNS Syndrome sufferer was attacked when he accidentally bumped into a man , a court heard . |
| 28 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 29 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 30 | It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell . |