Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton Manning , who works for the Birmingham Evening Mail , was stopped as he put the £17,582 Rover 220 turbo through its paces . |
| 2 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 3 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 4 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 5 | Now his heart was thumping as he turned the elevating screw past five degrees . |
| 6 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 7 | I knew he was irritated and he knew I was ashamed . |
| 8 | Is not the hypocrisy and confusion in the Opposition ranks shown by the fact that , when that judgment was announced , the legal affairs spokesman for the Opposition was immediately in the media demanding my right hon. Friend 's resignation , while the shadow Home Secretary was demanding that he remain . |
| 9 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |
| 10 | Racing at the top sporting event was halted when he collapsed . |
| 11 | Gasping , momentarily blinded by the water in her eyes , she became conscious of Niall , treading water beside her , of his dark hair , plastered against his head , of his bronzed , naked chest against which her own head was resting as he let the water take her weight , drawing her towards him . |
| 12 | Flames burst from the panel on which he was resting and he leapt up . |
| 13 | John McLeish rose to go but was recalled as he reached the door . |
| 14 | Failure of Antarctic sanctuary plan A French proposal for the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary was withdrawn when it became clear that it would not win the requisite 75 per cent level of support of IWC members . |
| 15 | She may work within a paradigm , and not be uninfluenced by how her mind was formed as she grew up within the discipline of science . |
| 16 | For the final tape a small production team of seven from the two schools was formed and they spent an extra day on this activity . |
| 17 | Later , IFAR [ International Foundation for Art Research ] was formed and we turned over our files to them . |
| 18 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 19 | Party leaders were concerned by the ‘ two for the price of one ’ sales pitch Hillary was using as she stumped around the country , often leading her husband into the fray rather than following . |
| 20 | Mr Heselton , an Independent on Whitby Town Council , was dismissed after he gave a customer he knew a free bottle of barbecue fluid , valued at £1 . |
| 21 | ( None the less , it should be noted that a critical essay of Eliot 's was dismissed because it said " nothing new " three years later. ) 50 A. C. Ward , reviewing a book called The Trend of Modem Poetry in 1936 , notes the impossibility of achieving " neutrality in the face of the conflict between right and left groups in contemporary poetry " , and therefore applauds attempts to " bring the apparently isolated modernists into the main traditional stream of English poetry " . |
| 22 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |
| 23 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 24 | Holland 's own interest in music was aroused when he learned to play the piano as a boy . |
| 25 | The second girl , Doreen Dacres , was like Carol Pearson , black-haired and aged twenty , and his interest was aroused because she had left her room in Finchley on May 15th to take a job in Eastbourne . |
| 26 | My first suspicion that these chaps were not what they seemed was aroused as I listened . |
| 27 | From the seventeenth century onwards , much of this land to the south of the Wash was drained and it has been farmed intensively ever since . |
| 28 | Nothing was new in this White Paper : it was emphasized that it provided an outline of a long-term strategy rather than a programme of rapid action , so it was generally regarded as a due statement of concern and good intentions , and little more . |
| 29 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 30 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |