Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 2 | He did n't turn his head to identify the car that was trailing it in case he was recognized . |
| 3 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 4 | I came out of the station , having had my break and was putting it into my notebook — ‘ refreshments at such-and-such a time , leave such- and such a time ’ . |
| 5 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 6 | She wanted to say , Please say something to me , please talk , but he had her still by her nipples and was pulling her towards him , then pushing her back . |
| 7 | She 'd bought some fancy underwear and was showing it to Franca and I came in and made some remarks . |
| 8 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 9 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 10 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 11 | On the steps of the stadium someone had erected a red hammer-and-sickle flag and was waving it towards the crowd and the few media people present . |
| 12 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 13 | She herself gave some of the lectures and was preparing one on business conditions in America . |
| 14 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 15 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
| 16 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 17 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 18 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 19 | Sandra joined the Nicholson crowd in the B-movie circle and was to become something of a model for future long-term relationships . |
| 20 | I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City . |
| 21 | Yanto grunted some inaudible remark and was introducing her to a goggle-eyed Billy as Nigger joined them . |
| 22 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 23 | Bigwig had raised his head and was supporting himself on his fore-paws alone . |
| 24 | She gave a little whimper of denial , her flat fists pushing against his chest , but he had moved his hand behind her head and was pressing her against him , forcing her lips apart so that he could savage her mouth with his tongue . |
| 25 | He 'd put some more money in the meter and was warming himself by the newly-lit fire . |
| 26 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 27 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 28 | The signalbox at Kirton Lindsey was the subject of an unexplained occurrence that was to baffle everyone for ever . |
| 29 | As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |