Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 2 | Her employers told her the work was too stressful for someone in her condition . |
| 3 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 4 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 5 | When Marian uncovered it the wound was raw and open and the flesh around it inflamed . |
| 6 | The expression on Hurley 's face when George told him the news was reward enough in itself , but there was an altogether different reaction from the DIA when Coleman reported in about El-Jorr and his key role as the DEA CI fronting for Eurame . |
| 7 | The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was . |
| 8 | Roirbak experienced a moment of panic , sure it was one of Penumbra 's staff , arrived too soon before he could work anything out , when Mellissa informed him the visitor was Leila Saatchi . |
| 9 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |