Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like er , she took it sch to school and Scott was giving us a lift to school so did n't have to walk and she 's in the car and she 's going if this gets if this gets all smashed up Scott I hope you realise I 'm blaming you ! |
| 2 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 3 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 4 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 5 | Joe Meek 's last big hit was Have I the Right by the Honeycombs . |
| 6 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 7 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 8 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
| 9 | Anyway , by the time Maureen went on her annual holiday , Biggles was feeding himself a bit and coming on well , so I took over . |
| 10 | came across dry ginger one of my school girlfriends was giving me a recipe , which , for which one er fo for erm ginger beer |
| 11 | Willy-nilly , he was now the star of The Hooded Owl , and the rest of the cast were giving him a taste of the treatment afforded to stars . |
| 12 | According to estimates from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and local Red Cross committees , some 2,500,000 people from the former Yugoslavia were displaced by the end of July , and some 10,000 people from Bosnia were joining them every day . |
| 13 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 14 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 15 | The uniforms were giving her the once-over . |
| 16 | So the retching was worrying me a bit . |
| 17 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 18 | Her father was reading her the story , a long time ago . |
| 19 | Belpan was outside the EC 's sphere of influence so the Colonel was doing someone a favour . |
| 20 | We went the bank the other day and er the assistant manager was showing me a picture of his Range Rover . |
| 21 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
| 22 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 23 | He said that he wondered whether the government had lost control of the security forces or whether the security forces were doing what the government wanted . |
| 24 | I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’ |
| 25 | These problems and a long evening incarcerated below decks without fresh air were giving her a headache . |
| 26 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 27 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 28 | The prescription was to offer them no reason for distinguishing between employers who , as custodians for the State , managed those centre-pieces of Socialist attainment , the nationalised industries ; and those who managed privately owned industries . |
| 29 | Bobbie looked surprised , because just for a moment she thought Peter was giving her the engine . |
| 30 | Those , mainly Conservative councils , that were spending below the standard spending levels were tempted to spend more and gain more grant ; those that were spending so much that government was giving them no grant could suffer no more penalties ; and all kinds of ingenious methods were used to avoid the penalties through creative accounting . |