Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] was [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father was reading her the story , a long time ago . |
| 2 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 3 | His reply was to give her a sharp pull forward and then a shove in the back , which knocked her to her knees . |
| 4 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 5 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 6 | His goal was to make himself a fortune . |
| 7 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 8 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |