Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 2 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 5 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 6 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 7 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 8 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 9 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 10 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 11 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |
| 12 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 13 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 14 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 15 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 16 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 17 | What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear ! |
| 18 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 19 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 20 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 21 | To turn Christian , in the 1930s and after , was to declare for the past , and only Graham Greene among notable pre-war literary converts to Rome was to maintain anything like a left-Wing view of public affairs . |
| 22 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 23 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Churchill was telling everyone of the dangers in Europe but no one would listen . |
| 26 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | George Orwell was warning everyone of the plight of poverty-stricken masses , whose only salvation was socialism and not the sort recommended by vegetarian cranks in sandals . |