Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ulcer had healed , the patient started a maintenance regimen of ranitidine ( 150 mg at night ) otherwise he or she was given an additional supply of ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) . |
| 2 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |
| 3 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 4 | From 1957 Rollo and his wife Alice came to London every year , where he was elected an honorary member of the Double Crown Club ( whom he addressed , on WA Dwiggins ) and the Wynkyn de Worde Society . |
| 5 | Five minutes before kick-off , Leicester goalkeeper Carl Muggleton went down in agony with a slipped disc and Hoult was ordered from the stand , where he was eating a hot dog . |
| 6 | In fact , he rarely came out of Bath and Wells , where he was proving a conscientious diocesan , predictably of a brisk administrative turn of mind . |
| 7 | He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome . |
| 8 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 9 | At a purely practical level , the anarchist and socialist press provided a forum for the dissemination of information about the October revolution , where it was given an enthusiastic reception . |
| 10 | Where it was melting a huge pile of boulder clay was built up , as a terminal moraine . |
| 11 | I went in the belief that I was encouraging a modern renaissance of the Egyptian theatre . |
| 12 | The only excuse I have is that I was very young , a marvellous justification for most reprobate behaviour , and that I was wearing an uncomfortable vest . |
| 13 | When Dr Richard Lawrence , the society 's secretary , learned that I was writing a Christian appraisal of paganism and the occult , he pointed out that Aetherius ' members fully revered Jesus , and were convinced of his virgin birth and resurrection . |
| 14 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 15 | My Squadron 499 of the Air Training Corps became very successful , so much so that I was awarded a national honour , a Member of the British Empire , MBE ( Military ) . |
| 16 | And indeed , to go for a more precise figure would suggest that I was making a particular point . |
| 17 | We could n't get a babysitter , so I was expecting a cold TV dinner thrown at my head when I rolled back . |
| 18 | My two main subjects were English and music , so I was spending a large part of every day doing the things I loved most . |
| 19 | However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 20 | As I was floundering around trying to see a picture she mentioned that she was dreading a forthcoming holiday because of travel-sickness — the anticipatory fear would lead to headaches and frequent urination . |
| 21 | With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping . |
| 22 | She told me that she was wearing a blue hat and coat and that she was safely strapped in her pushchair . |
| 23 | He had forgotten that Marie was only a girl ; forgotten that she was wearing a ridiculous dressing-gown . |
| 24 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 25 | She flung open her macintosh and Stephanie saw that she was wearing a skin-tight black sweater , wide elastic belt , long grey pencil skirt . |
| 26 | I had only recently heard of the existence of such places , but I gradually came to the conclusion that she was running a small brothel of which she herself was the centre of interest . |
| 27 | Charsky could decipher that she was filming an ecological documentary of Lake Baikal . |
| 28 | Clare doubled her income overnight , and felt that she was doing a useful job . |
| 29 | It has even refused to injunct a magazine which had published an allegation it could not justify , where it might succeed at trial for other reasons : Soraya Kashoggi sought an injunction to withdraw " Woman 's Own " from circulation when it published a statement that she was having an extra-marital affair with a Head of State . |
| 30 | Davies , Strudwick and Johnson persuaded Nicholas to hand in her resignation because they could see that she was having an impossible time of it . |