Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 2 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
| 3 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 4 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 5 | Serum pepsinogen I was measured in the sample taken immediately before starting the meal by the commercial radioimmunoassay kit manufactured by Incstar Ltd ( Berkshire , UK ) . |
| 6 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 7 | In a recent telephone conversation with the CAA I was connected with the department that allocates frequencies for such beacons . |
| 8 | As a result I was ridiculed by the other children . |
| 9 | Tumbling blearily on deck in my pyjamas I was confronted by the huge bulk of a klondyke trawler ramming alongside us , and I was just in time to see her huge fender catch our motor dory and sink her where she was tied to our stern . |
| 10 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 11 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 12 | In early religion she was worshipped as the patroness of marriage , her fecundity being petitioned with gifts of fruit and seeds . |
| 13 | She was waiting to commence training as a nurse so her life was also heading in a new direction , but she was ill prepared for the grief she was to experience at the loss of the sister who had been so close and influential in her own life . |
| 14 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 15 | Then with a splash she was plunging into the crystal-clear water , and , an instant later , bobbing unharmed to the surface . |
| 16 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 17 | oh my god it 's the incredible hulk oh and you know Jayne with the skirt up here , well in English study she was walking up the steps like this |
| 18 | ‘ Through me the defendants tender their sincere apologies to the plaintiff for the distress she was caused by the publication of the article . ’ |
| 19 | On Saturday she was chosen as the candidate by members of the Euro-constituency which the party held at the last election in 1990 by just 2,977 votes . |
| 20 | She was swung round forcefully , so that her breath gasped from her body , then with equal force she was flung against the door . |
| 21 | While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake . |
| 22 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 23 | In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries they were channelled through the Justice of the Forest . |
| 24 | When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’ |
| 25 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 26 | When the pails reached Kuwait they were left in the open on the quayside and the pails melted in the hot sunshine . |
| 27 | In the North-East they were represented by the tribe known as the Brigantes . |
| 28 | In addition , large numbers of drifter buoys were launched into the ocean off Peru and for several months they were tracked via the Argos satellite as they drifted with the surface currents . |
| 29 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 30 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |