Example sentences of "[verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top Flying-boats had a glamorous image , but disembarking was often an undignified scramble . |
| 2 | The feature editor had a bad stutter , and Hannen Swaffer was deaf , so to watch them trying to communicate was hilarious . |
| 3 | It was generally agreed that the right to communicate was rarely upheld in African countries . |
| 4 | It was generally agreed that the right to communicate was rarely upheld in African countries . |
| 5 | Fei Yen was looking down , the p'ip'a resting loosely against her breasts , her whole frame bent forward , as if she had emptied herself with the song . |
| 6 | Fei Yen was silent . |
| 7 | Fei Yen was sleeping when he came in . |
| 8 | What he really wanted to write was : |
| 9 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 10 | What transpired was a superb display in the line-outs and the driving rucks , where Garryowen 's Waikato lock , Brent Anderson , gave a typical display , well backed by no.8 Ben Cronin and Robert Costello at lock , but particularly by an astoundingly good all round performance by the 20-year-old hooker , Keith Wood . |
| 11 | Rush hour crowding was a serious hazard , and the station was 39 per cent understaffed . |
| 12 | The time to worry was when the noise of the doodle-bug overhead stopped , for then it was going to fall . |
| 13 | The tunnelling that the Frenchman was paid — and handsomely — to supervise was off the road to Arbil , close to the village of Salahuddin , due north of Baghdad . |
| 14 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 15 | What he was denying was their ability to achieve the outcomes to which the opportunities for mutually advantageous trade clearly pointed . |
| 16 | Whether they were missiles or bombs was not disclosed : what was disclosed was that they were hydrogen devices , each one in the monster megaton range , twelve to fifteen megatons . |
| 17 | Mr. Scott was at the head of his art in Europe , and he ( Sir Joseph Paxton ) said , that the building he had designed was a beautiful building . |
| 18 | The security set-up Duroc had designed was working perfectly . |
| 19 | It is understood samples taken for analysis showed three times more iodine 129 than permitted was released into the atmosphere . |
| 20 | The U's boss was not happy with the physical tactics employed by Rochdale in last Saturday 's 5–2 defeat at Spotland . |
| 21 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 22 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
| 23 | Another race he could have won was staged across the Hoggar Mountains of the Algerian Sahara , where , after running a marathon a day in intense heat for 13 days , he deliberately slowed to allow another runner to win . |
| 24 | ‘ The look on her face of sheer joy and pride that she had won was one I shall always remember , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The independence which they had won was qualified , and in the long run the king lost little by this switch : he could still tax the clergy — and did so frequently — and he could convoke them when it would have been impolitic to convene the laity in parliament . |
| 26 | He established that the body which was badly decomposed was that of a male aged between 16 and 25 . |
| 27 | Not all data provided was that useful . |
| 28 | Security in any situation can never be guaranteed but the security that farming provided was obviously appreciated . |
| 29 | Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information . |
| 30 | The hotel that we stayed in was just awful , and the food provided was worse . |