Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 2 | But apparently it was stolen last week . |
| 3 | Of all the men in Chung Kuo , only he was allowed this richness , this lifelong measure of perfection . |
| 4 | He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 . |
| 5 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 6 | When the visas did come through they were dated 5 September . |
| 7 | Little danger as there was of another martyrdom , there was even less chance of the clergy satisfying their grievances at Edward 's expense : the most significant thing about the legislation of May 1341 is how easily it was repealed five months later . |
| 8 | I mean presumably you was born this side of the river ? |
| 9 | At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’ |
| 10 | later he was fed minute amounts of donor milk from the milk bank by a nasal-gastric tube , just 1ml an hour at first . |
| 11 | Three months later he was crowned German King at Bonn . |
| 12 | Tragically he was killed five days later in a third attempt . |
| 13 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 14 | Increasingly it was reported that gold was being reconverted into cash , which was then deposited in new saving accounts offering high rates of interest . |
| 15 | It was hardship in this , that er , perhaps the hardest time came after it when er , well it was called public assistance then , social security payments had to be payed back . |
| 16 | Well it was adjourned last week but er instructions Your Worships . |
| 17 | Yes , a fortnight ago he was appointed chief art advisor for Devon |
| 18 | I have remarked on its dominance in Oxford English , and a generation ago it was given magisterial expression in Northrop Frye 's Anatomy of Criticism , which aspired to a ‘ scientific ’ criticism where there would be no place for evaluation , since it is not nobler to study stars than earthworms . |
| 19 | Bringing up the rear was Sid , but even he was subdued this morning . |
| 20 | Apart from the area around Manchester , ill other regions were experiencing a steep decline in membership by 1935 , and anti-semitism now showed itself to be a viable propaganda vehicle in a particular locality ; from then on it was given special prominence . |
| 21 | While we were there we were told some ghost stories about the house and in one room there was a mummified cat to ward off evil spirits . |
| 22 | Unfortunately he was told that tradition would not allow it . |
| 23 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 24 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 25 | One French officer describes how he was buried three times that day in his trench , and dug out each time by his men . |
| 26 | The cooperativity between α-truncated polymerases and CRP is lost at the lac promoter , consequently it was expected that binding of CRP at its target in the -60 region would not lead to the occupancy of lac P1 by the mutant enzymes . |
| 27 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 28 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 29 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 30 | He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid . |