Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading lady Julia Roberts was keen to make it with a British actor , namely Last Of The Mohicans Daniel Day Lewis , but is reluctant to go ahead with the replacement suggested by producer 's Universal , her former boyfriend Jason Patric . |
| 2 | The DEA was free to use it for any covert operation it wished , but if anything went wrong , Hurley could always say , ‘ Oh , you mean that Cypriot boat . ’ |
| 3 | Travis was quick to deny it with one of his charming smiles . |
| 4 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 5 | In the document which outlines this progress , and elsewhere , the CDP was anxious to distance itself from other institutions in the public sector . |
| 6 | IBM was unable to know everything about everything , much as it would have liked to — so it had to learn to cooperate . |
| 7 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 8 | The man was a murderer , and the judge was right to condemn him to death . |
| 9 | Simon was supposed to take me for lunch an hour ago , ’ she said , hearing herself rattle on , yet unable to stop , ‘ but he seems to have forgotten and I 'm hungry and — ’ |
| 10 | Unable to avoid it , however , he faced O'Rourke in New Orleans where it became apparent that the Irishman had no idea of fighting ; Burke was able to hit him at will . |
| 11 | Cassie was content to leave it at that . |
| 12 | She pleaded with Andrew to curtail their power , but her easy-going husband was unable to prevent them from stabbing his wife in the back . |
| 13 | This warmth was sufficient to help him over the threshold of marriage . |
| 14 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 15 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 16 | Admittedly the notes were signed by the appellant and not disputed but the evidence was necessary to link him with the assault . |
| 17 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 18 | Still , Newbolt at any rate was able to understand something of what was at stake . |
| 19 | The finished clothes were delivered to the hotel on her last morning in Paris only an hour before Bob Storrington was due to collect her for lunch . |
| 20 | Your father was right to warn me about you ! ’ |
| 21 | They are shown as separate locations only because Drachenfels was able to visit them in whatever order he chose , and characters might somehow be able to by-pass one terrain to get to another in the sequence . |
| 22 | In the crowds were to be found most kinds of urban and industrial workers but hardly ever farm labourers ; in many cases they were shielded from the market by receiving part of their wages in kind , and in general the authority structure of the countryside was sufficient to deter them from rioting . |
| 23 | None of the prosecution witnesses was able to identify him in court , and his conviction was based on contradictory evidence , mainly statements extracted by torture from his fellow defendants . |
| 24 | He already had a verbal agreement with Forest for another year , but chairman Frederick Reacher was anxious to put it in writing at a time when the anti-Clough lobby was growing in strength . |
| 25 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 26 | Recovering from his surprise , Duvall was ready to throw himself at Jimmy . |
| 27 | The politicians were amateurs , instinctively confident that common sense was sufficient to guide them in making judgments about the professional standing of the interviewees . |
| 28 | One person stated that the government was unwilling to evaluate itself about how its policies were working on the ground . |
| 29 | Many lives had been lost because of Mills ’ treachery but the government was unwilling to do anything about it . |
| 30 | In plain language it meant that there could be no public loan unless the British Government was prepared to commit itself to severe retrenchment , including a cut of ten per cent in unemployment benefits . |