Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy . |
| 2 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 3 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 4 | Chicken Likken was holding him to her breast with her wings , trying to comfort him . |
| 5 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
| 6 | All over London the bolts on pub doors were tensing themselves for their daily bid for freedom . |
| 7 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 9 | And it got to the point where our pumps were issuing the fuel in gallons , but the fuel companies were bringing it in in litres . |
| 10 | ‘ Matthew Epstein was managing me at Harold Shaw at the time , ’ he recalls . |
| 11 | MUM-TO-BE Lynne Adams , 36 , gave birth to a girl on the M5 yesterday as husband Phil was driving her to hospital in Taunton , Somerset . |
| 12 | The material was deemed faulty and Mr Martinson was emptying it from his truck when it splashed over him , causing severe burns . |
| 13 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
| 14 | Within two weeks we were encouraging our readers to lobby their MPs concerning the restrictive Night Assemblies Bill , Robert Tripp was regaling us with tales of groupies and interviews had taken on a new air of contention , seriousness and madness . |
| 15 | Cameron began to wonder if Mr Menzies was identifying himself with Job , and when he ended ringingly on ‘ Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil ? ’ , the suspicion was confirmed . |
| 16 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 17 | If they do recommend an envoy , and if President Clinton were to appoint someone like former President Jimmy Carter , the effect would be only to make the problem worse . |
| 18 | Samuel Pipkin was tensing himself for the coming life and death struggle this evening , when the vital decision would be made by the Prince of Wales , and Mr Thackeray would be avenged . |
| 19 | Mr Bishop was having none of it , however , and the affair turned ugly for a while with the Alborne goalposts being jostled . |
| 20 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |
| 21 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 22 | Rune Christensen was amusing himself at her expense . |
| 23 | Antoinette was being a pest , as usual , and Tante Héloise was scolding me for not wanting to play with her . ’ |
| 24 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 25 | One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine . |
| 26 | ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town . |
| 27 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 28 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 29 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 30 | Jack Charlton and Billy Bingham were spouting nothing but platitudes last night , leaving the Dublin public to count punts and what sounded suspiciously like chickens before the Republic of Ireland 's historic World Cup tie against their northern neighbours at Lansdowne Road this afternoon . |