Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later , when the Plymouth came screaming around the bend , Manville was safely observing it from the inside of a record store window . |
| 2 | At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale — no less than six boards competing for the passerby 's attention . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 6 | And Bill Holroyd was already showing himself to be pretty gullible , so it 's in character . |
| 7 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 8 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 11 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And Shaunagh was there to help him through one of the most embarrassing moments of his life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One particularly persistent gentleman was clearly using us as a punchbag for his English . |
| 20 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 21 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The English king was certainly identifying himself with God , and with a vengeance . |
| 25 | Midnight was forever filling her with surprises . |
| 26 | The old woman was always threatening her with a stick-licking if she told lies , but told them herself . |
| 27 | And I suppose all that Oxfam reject rubbish was just to throw me off the scent ? ’ |
| 28 | In any case , Twoflower was delightedly taking picture after picture of people engaged in what he described as typical activities , and since a quarter-rhinu would subsequently change hands ‘ for their trouble ’ a tail of bemused and happy nouveaux-riches was soon following him in case this madman exploded in a shower of gold . |
| 29 | Britain was soon devoting something like half its national product to the war , a massive shift of resources , unthinkable in peacetime . |
| 30 | But this sense was always leading her into trouble — why get involved again ? |