Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this early hour I was taking a final look at the layout of the course . |
| 2 | This was discussed with Mr Brown and as a result he was given a variable height bed which could be kept low to enable him to get in and out easily . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend . |
| 4 | Perhaps because after an almost fatal spasm , Coleridge thought his marriage was now bearable — although on this eight-day storming and often precipitous walk around the mountains and lakes he was to write a passionate letter to the woman he desired as his mistress while perched on the highest mountain in England . |
| 5 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
| 6 | For my birthday in February I was given a good quality ‘ used ’ rowing boat . |
| 7 | As a boy I was given a little patch of our garden to cultivate . |
| 8 | ‘ Before the Firebird I was using an old Gibson ES-175 up until about 1971 , ’ details Sonny . |
| 9 | As a child I was given a grey plastic gun as a birthday present . |
| 10 | In the circumstances I was asking a great deal . |
| 11 | Then she opened her eyes , and rose to her feet She was wearing a black shirt outside black jeans , with black ballet shoes . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , it 's bliss … ’ she began , then noticed Xanthe 's delicate widening of her eyes and a slight wrinkle of pale nose , like white jade , and noticed that on her fair curls she was wearing a small moulded felt cap , with a slantwise spray of fluffy feathers — ; egret ? — curving into her nape . |
| 13 | In the long run it was to create a new ‘ image ’ of itself which was purposely devoid of politics , as well as left-wing politics . |
| 14 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 15 | The police have declined to comment , but in a brief statement Mr Girven said he was conducting an inquiry to ensure that officers in the force have behaved correctly , and that in the circumstances he was seeking an independent investigator from another force to undertake it . |
| 16 | The police have declined to comment , but in a brief statement Mr Girven said he was conducting an inquiry to ensure that officers in the force have behaved correctly , and that in the circumstances he was seeking an independent investigator from another force to undertake it . |
| 17 | On arrival at Hillsborough she was given a boisterous welcome by 150 children given time off school to greet her . |
| 18 | This evening she was wearing a little suit from a woman called Chanel , something that she had drabbled and subdued into an obscurity proper to its country background . |
| 19 | For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children . |
| 20 | He says the Teesside Development Corporation wanted an annual rent of £50,000 for the alternative site he was offered a derelict five acres of ground at Middlesbrough , when the firm was offering £10,000 . |
| 21 | Before the accident he was enjoying a lucrative career on the Senior Tour . |
| 22 | In nearby Powis Square he was running a book-cum-record shop with John Michel , whose semi-mystic writing was to become a feature of It five years later . |
| 23 | Every day I was sent a secret report by the Chief of Police , and the next afternoon I was playing cards with Fritz when Sapt brought it in . |
| 24 | His timing was impeccable attacking his old boss on the day he was making a big speech on the economy . |
| 25 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 26 | The Simonova was in almost perfect space equilibrium — like the platforms it was following a geostationary path almost thirty-six thousand kilometres above the equator of Tarvaras . |
| 27 | FOREIGN Office said last night it was sending a Royal Navy frigate and supply ship to help in Bahamas . |
| 28 | That first morning I was served a rudimentary breakfast in the Officers ' Home . |
| 29 | It is for these reasons that I felt then , as I do now , that in pursuing an industrial career I was performing a social service , of no less significance than my service in the armed forces . |
| 30 | This week she was considering a six-month temporary tenancy at the Grey Horse , Haughton Village , offered by Grand Met . |