Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one , the thing that I actually picked up on is tt erm in the greeting part of it you , you started very well and then Martin seemed to take control and you almost felt as if Martin was interviewing you at one point and erm you tried to get the control back and that 's when you went straight into the statement of purpose , because Martin was taking control . |
| 2 | Education was taking one in ten of the output of students and employed 18 per cent of those with jobs . |
| 3 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 4 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 5 | Another solution to the problem of gaining height was told me by one of my respondents , who dreamed of climbing a high flagpole . |
| 6 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 7 | Well I thought the idea was to put it on one of the original walls though . |
| 8 | The recommendation for the West was to divide it into three regions : South-west ( Dumfries and Galloway ) ; Central — based on the Falkirk-Stirling area ; and the West or Clyde Valley ( Strathclyde ) . |
| 9 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 10 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 11 | Interestingly enough Larry Witty , the General Secretary of the Labour Party , said at last year 's Labour Party Conference that if it had not been for the steadily , steady influence of the unions during the eighties , when the Party was tearing itself in two , we would not have a Labour Party today . |