Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it would be a tough year for sure , revenue was not dropping anything like as much as the bookings percentage . |
| 2 | Seconds later , when the Plymouth came screaming around the bend , Manville was safely observing it from the inside of a record store window . |
| 3 | At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale — no less than six boards competing for the passerby 's attention . |
| 4 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 5 | At eight o'clock in the evening of 17 August 1759 the single frigate which Boscawen had left to watch the Straits arrived in Gibraltar harbour with the alarming news that the enemy was about to escape them after all . |
| 6 | I do n't know if this was especially unusual , or maybe even against King 's Regulations ( so many things were ) , but Flight Officer Gregory was forever pursuing him with offers of theatre tickets and weekends in London . |
| 7 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 8 | And Bill Holroyd was already showing himself to be pretty gullible , so it 's in character . |
| 9 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 10 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 11 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 12 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 13 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 14 | This girl was plainly throwing herself at him , and he knew that if he took advantage of something so easy , he would really feel shabby . |
| 15 | Short was about to say something about Frank Connor , but thought better of it . |
| 16 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 17 | At the conference , in the final plenary session , what was emerging was that the whole conference was virtually treating itself like handmaidens to the medical profession . |
| 18 | I had the feeling that Prentice was out to kill me with kindness , or at least make me put my hands up to something I had n't done . |
| 19 | Soon lobbing along behind the leaders , Llewellyn was always finding plenty of room for Party Politics and by the second Canal Turn , when Romany King moved up to join Hotplate , the race had begun to take it 's final shape . |
| 20 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 21 | And Shaunagh was there to help him through one of the most embarrassing moments of his life . |
| 22 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 23 | Before very long , Wilson was constantly consulting me on a number of matters and even seeking my opinion on political issues — which he wisely always rejected . |
| 24 | One particularly persistent gentleman was clearly using us as a punchbag for his English . |
| 25 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 26 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 27 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 28 | While Branson was negotiating the purchase of his Caribbean island , the living corpse of the Sex Pistols was slowly kicking itself to final , ignominious extinction . |
| 29 | The English king was certainly identifying himself with God , and with a vengeance . |
| 30 | Midnight was forever filling her with surprises . |