Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fasted for a further 2 hours , after which they were allowed normal food and fluid intake . |
| 2 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I 'm not , ’ he said , gazing up to the ceiling , to which he was sending little puffs of cigarette smoke . |
| 4 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 5 | I drew this item to the attention of congress last year since when my branch has lost thirty four members to new caps including one who was making good progress and had become a national delegate . |
| 6 | As Philip Snowden told the House of Commons , increased trade would help to ‘ approximate the Russian system to that of other countries with whom they were having commercial relations . ’ |
| 7 | Topaz clawed Andrew 's back , silently begging him to satisfy the ravenous craving within her which was reaching unbearable proportions . |
| 8 | His original crime was allegedly that he was plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into Ireland and trying to raise a further army by levying a charge on the poverty stricken clergy of Ireland among whom he was doing mighty works in reviving the Catholic faith . |
| 9 | Even when we were not even looking like fouling them he was giving free kicks against us . |
| 10 | In it I was crossing Old Carrots , coming towards the house , a stick in one hand , the other pushed into my hair . |
| 11 | I warned 'em you was comin' round ternight an' not ter be late , ’ Nellie said . |
| 12 | What he was saying hurt Shiona more than she could ever have believed possible . |