Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was right across the road from college everyone was hanging out the window to see what was happening . |
| 2 | While I 'm on the subject , whatever happened to the Randy Hansen interview which was promised quite a while ago but never appeared ? |
| 3 | Then the band walked into a row between two violent street gangs who were arguing over a drug deal . |
| 4 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 5 | An elegance which was enjoyed only a few days earlier can now seem artificial , out of touch with the sense of self that has arisen . |
| 6 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 7 | She rested the child she was carrying on the parapet , the child being asleep , and held it with one hand as she used the other to search at her breast purse for her money . |
| 8 | Fiona said , coming down the steps alongside a slim , blonde-haired girl who was zipping up an anorak . |
| 9 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 10 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 11 | One evening I was bringing in a basket of apples from the garden , when a voice behind me said , ‘ Ellen , is that you ? ’ |
| 12 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 13 | Deddington is indeed a failed town which was founded probably a little before 1190 presumably because of its situation at the junction of what by then were important routes . |
| 14 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 15 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 16 | Prison officers say there are plans to re-open a Victorian jail which was mothballed nearly a year ago . |
| 17 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |
| 18 | One , like any new band we were checking out the opposition . |
| 19 | From that point they were to make over a hundred films together , some thirty of them silent ones , and with their best work probably deriving from the phase 1929–35 , when they were engaged in creating coherent and sparse twenty-minute cameos . |
| 20 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 21 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 22 | The script had him deliver a line that was in sharp contrast to most of the seemingly right-wing reactionary statements he was making whenever a camera was n't turning or when a curtain was not up : ‘ Extraordinary theory — you bend a child double in order to give him an upright character . ’ |
| 23 | An and I think of course we were made quite a fuss of too . |
| 24 | Another time in the 1987 election we were driving along a dual carriageway in Norfolk heading for an airport to meet Mrs Thatcher 's plane and join up with the Battlebus . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you glad we came , Agnes ? ’ she asked her friend who was standing back a little from the craftsmen as they worked . |
| 26 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 27 | One minute they were pushing forward a couple of tentative singles on their own label ( The Far Out Recording Company ) , the next they were being pressganged by Polydor and trailed across the press following the release of their debut album , The Eight Legged Groove Machine . |
| 28 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 29 | Through the Youth Organisation he was building up an alternative body of supporters , notably K.A . |
| 30 | One night he was walking down a narrow , dark lane when suddenly , from behind a parked van , a huge man appeared . |