Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed that Hari was watching him with dull eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town . |
| 3 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 4 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 5 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 6 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 7 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 8 | Oh , Ken was asking us about that . |
| 9 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 10 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 11 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 12 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 13 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 14 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 15 | So in the end it would be Maxim 's name on the pieces of paper , not whatever Sims was calling himself on this trip . |
| 16 | But Harold was having none of that . |
| 17 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 18 | Brückner was watching him with wide , frightened eyes . |
| 19 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 20 | Bryan 's aim was to wean us off complete reliance on precise diagnostic features , and to get us to concentrate on the ‘ Personality ’ of each species ; on the way it holds itself , feeds , moves , calls ; its general behaviour and first glance appearance — ‘ jizz ’ for short . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 23 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |
| 24 | Education was taking one in ten of the output of students and employed 18 per cent of those with jobs . |
| 25 | Guy Sterne was eyeing her with amused curiosity . |
| 26 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 27 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 28 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 29 | Oswin was watching her with expressionless eyes . |
| 30 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |