Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun . |
| 2 | His girlfriend was trying to give him the kiss of life . |
| 3 | Everyone , save Babs Osborne , understood that her Polish lover was trying to give her the push . |
| 4 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 5 | Ah that 's after when you , when Jehovah was going to destroy it the death , yes ? |
| 6 | Thus the expansion of larger manufacturing firms was designed to give them the opportunity to expand output with protection from fluctuations in demand given by avoiding any excessive accumulation of fixed costs . |
| 7 | Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely . |
| 8 | Clinton was expected to declare himself the winner at 4am British time , even before some polls on the west coast closed . |
| 9 | And eventually Doyle was forced to tell him the whole story . |
| 10 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |