Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This first Report was read by Professor Brian Griffiths , whose duty as Prime Minister 's adviser was to present it to Mrs Thatcher with his comments . |
| 2 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 3 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 4 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 5 | The snow was smothering everything in whiteness , deadening all sound . |
| 6 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 8 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 9 | Who was , when Molly was telling me about Jason , when Jason sa , I could have murdered Ryan doing that ! |
| 10 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 11 | Japanese records suggest that Kim was opposing them in May 1929 . |
| 12 | Twenty years ago the same testy attitude was asserting itself in Parliament , prompting one MP to urge Mr Butler not to give in to ‘ the wild men of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 13 | He says the origninal plan was to raise it to 12p . |
| 14 | Because these areas contained many people of Slovenian stock , Tito was claiming them as parts of a " Greater Yugoslavia " . |
| 15 | From their point of view , the most reasonable way to interpret these strange articles was to regard them as headgear . |
| 16 | Eva 's desire to communicate the gospel was given plenty of outlets . |
| 17 | Helen was driving her to suicide , I could see that . |
| 18 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 19 | MUM-TO-BE Lynne Adams , 36 , gave birth to a girl on the M5 yesterday as husband Phil was driving her to hospital in Taunton , Somerset . |
| 20 | ‘ Matthew Epstein was managing me at Harold Shaw at the time , ’ he recalls . |
| 21 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 22 | A further £375 was allowed him for assistants , and £52 for a Caretaker , heating , cleaning , coal , and coke " . |
| 23 | These ‘ cardinal points ’ , they now proposed , should find expression through a series of experimental poems in which Coleridge was to concern himself with subjects ‘ supernatural , or at least romantic ’ , and Wordsworth was to ‘ give the charm of novelty to things of every day ’ , seeking for characters and incidents ‘ such … as will be found in every village ’ . |
| 24 | No er the most annoying thing about last night was when , when Martin was actually reviewing erm some of the topics that we had n't got right erm and Martin was prompting us with questions and we answered them ! |
| 25 | His constant invasion of her privacy was driving her to distraction . |
| 26 | Presumably Billykins was telling her about Donald the Gourmet Cook , Donald the Great Fighter for Social Change , Donald the Novelist . |
| 27 | Yet what I was really doing was hardening myself against disappointment — my mother was going to be abroad when the baby was born . |
| 28 | When Alsace was rebuilding itself as part of France after the war , it decided to create a single appellation and to use grape variety names rather than vineyard sites . |
| 29 | It was not so much meanness that restrained her , as a profound mistrust of her own organizations : and also she felt obscurely , that to invite people into her own room was to condemn them to boredom and unease . |
| 30 | Okay , is n't it interesting , is n't depressing , that absolutely none of these things was taught you at school , except possibly the sport ? |