Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 3 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 4 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 5 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 7 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 8 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 9 | Araminta was appraising her in a considering way . |
| 10 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 11 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 12 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 13 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 14 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 15 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 16 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 17 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 18 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 19 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 20 | And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from . |
| 21 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 22 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 23 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 24 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 25 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 26 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 27 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
| 28 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 29 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |
| 30 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |