Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 2 | She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 3 | The blue eyes were studying her with an intentness she found exceedingly disconcerting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 6 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 7 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 8 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 9 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 10 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 11 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 12 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 13 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 14 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 15 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 16 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 17 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 20 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 21 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 22 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 23 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 24 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 25 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 26 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 27 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 28 | Gaynor Wynne was filming her with a camcorder during a champagne reception at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 29 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 30 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |