Example sentences of "[vb infin] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and the others — when they let their capes fall open-were wearing one-piece outfits of a lighter and duller blue than their capes , with black boots and belts . |
| 2 | I drank too much at dinner and missed whole stretches of conversation , noting at one point with tipsy clarity that people who could converse were a great boon to the inarticulate who yet , when in the company of their tongue-tied fellows , felt it essential to say something . |
| 3 | The fish and chips he did buy were simply scrumptious . |
| 4 | Well they would buy Were a a breed of men , as far as I know , used to wear what they called moleskin trousers . |
| 5 | She makes me discover things in myself I did n't know were there . |
| 6 | Two days of dieting completed and you 've found muscles in your body you did n't know were there . |
| 7 | In minutes he was dressed and looking for his signallers at the Dutch HQ , for as second in command of the Company he must warn headquarters and the platoons in their hill positions above the town , as well as contacting Sparrow Force , whom he did not know were under attack the same night . |
| 8 | They exposed strengths and weaknesses they did n't know were theirs . |
| 9 | The only other places somebody who 'd joined the Army at sixteen would know were Army places . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 11 | You simply must have matching place cards : ‘ How else would the guests know were to sit ? ’ |
| 12 | We had that well she 's claiming for loss of earnings , think she 's broke a leg , we do n't know were n't allowed to take a photo bike she had a brand new . |
| 13 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 14 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 15 | What do you consider were the gallery 's greatest successes in twenty years of business ? |
| 16 | I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan . |
| 17 | The May blossom was out , however , and there was green everywhere , in lawns and trees , and in shrubs and bushes , together with purple pansies and statues , while in the background birds sang . |
| 18 | As Harriet took her granddaughter from him , all she could murmur was , ‘ Thank you , Bert , more than I can say . |
| 19 | CBI gloom and a call from Peter Shore to reflate or resign was met by the advice from Geoffrey Howe to ‘ keep our nerve ’ . |
| 20 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 21 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 22 | The number of times convicted federal prisoners could appeal was also to be limited . |
| 23 | Second , that having worked hard in the acting profession all my life , the last thing I would enjoy was working the clock round every summer when I could be sunbathing and swimming in Bala Lake . |
| 24 | The question of whether the queen would survive was not the only problem created by James V 's early death . |
| 25 | ‘ It appears that the baby who did survive was doing maybe two-thirds of the work . |
| 26 | And we 're staying with football now , we 've got one more match report to give you ; the Oxfordshire Senior Cup third round , most of those matches were called off , but one which did survive was Headington against Thame , and a good result for Headington ; they won by two goals to nil . |
| 27 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 28 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 29 | What I did n't know was how to stop . |
| 30 | What they did not know was Kylie 's principles now prevented her from even touching them . |