Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People living near the site say that during last years festival their lives were made a misery . |
| 2 | A TEENAGER who wants to ‘ divorce ’ her parents was made a ward of court yesterday . |
| 3 | ‘ The standard text of Classical gastronomic literature is Trimalchio 's feast from The Satyricon of Petronius , a fictional extravaganza built on an unmistakable and amusing basis of fact , during which guests were offered a hare tricked out with wings to look like Pegasus , a wild sow with its belly full of live thrushes , quinces stuck with thorns to look like sea urchins , a hog stuffed with sausage links , roast pork carved into model fish , and several other frivolities of the kind . ’ |
| 4 | Christopher also seemed to indicate that the United States and its allies were considering a programme to provide Russia a kind of social safety net as it moves to free markets . |
| 5 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 6 | A woman with two young boys round her skirts was preparing a meal , perched on a stool with a pottery bowl on her knees . |
| 7 | Ethel Mitchell and her ladies were having a function , a dinner-dance , the highlight of their social calendar . |
| 8 | Their Lordships were shown a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Stinchcombe v. The Queen ( unreported ) , 7 November 1991 from which it appears that ( partly in reliance on section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ) a much wider view is taken of the prosecution 's duty of disclosure of documents to the defence , namely , that , subject to certain discretions as to whether and when disclosure should be made , the Crown has a legal duty to disclose all relevant information to the defence on the basis that |
| 9 | The beauty of her surroundings was provoking a warmth , right inside herself , like a small fire in her heart . |
| 10 | During a scene in W C Fields ' The Bank Dick in which men were digging a trench in the road I became aware that my feet felt cold and wet . |
| 11 | ‘ Their horses were fed a meal of oats and bran to make them more fiery . |
| 12 | Their festivals were to be a commemoration of God 's acts and even some of their clothes were to carry a reminder : ‘ Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread , and whenever you see this in the tassel , you shall remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them . ’ |
| 13 | Close fellowship was achieved during the Lambeth Conference of bishops of the Anglican Communion in the summer of 1989 — the first at which women were allowed a voice . |
| 14 | But , even while her spirits were taking a nosedive that , supposing he was offering her a lift to Prague , there would n't be any point in accepting if it was unlikely she 'd be able to book in anywhere , he , to her absolute astonishment , was going on , ‘ There 's a spare room in a suite I 've reserved for this month — you can have that if you wish . ’ |
| 15 | He chose Ottery as the place in which to found a religious community , and in 1337 obtained the king 's licence to make the church a collegiate foundation , whose members were to include a warden , a minister , a chanter , and eight choral vicars . |
| 16 | His fingers were tracing a path down her spine that sent delicious tremors through her body . |
| 17 | One of his sons was given a place , as a charity , at the Greenwich Hospital School and in 1901 his daughter was given a civil list pension of £30 for her father 's discoveries . |
| 18 | He was a remarkable soldier and for his pains was given a domain at Jičín ( where he re-planned the town ) , the dukedom of Friedland and the duchy of Mecklenburg . |
| 19 | His objectives were to give a guide to the better choice of an animal ; to establish the true conformation of the racehorse , setting a standard for an ideal animal to achieve maximum speed , and at any given time to discover whether the breeds had improved or degenerated . |
| 20 | His men were keeping a watch on the comings and goings of the terrorists . |
| 21 | I know his others were getting a bit |
| 22 | Er there were lots of er little panes broken before but er whether our lads were having a bit of a pot shot . |
| 23 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |
| 24 | ‘ It would n't have been so bad , ’ Souness remembered , ‘ but for the fact that one of our assailants was wielding a sword . |