Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] were [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of Ted 's opponents were finding the Backdoor . |
| 2 | These Mirror 's pictures were to rock the world |
| 3 | Of course , David 's bodyguards were guarding the door and I went to see what they wanted and this guy , who said he was the night detective , announced that unless we emptied the room in five minutes , he was going to close the party down . |
| 4 | The chancellor 's duties were to oversee the issue of all curial correspondence . |
| 5 | At first Wolff 's duties were to manage the yard and provide engineering skills ; but later , through his links with the Jewish community in Britain and Hamburg , he was to bring a large amount of business to the yard . |
| 6 | The subdeacon 's duties were to prepare the bread and wine and the vessels for the mass and to chant the Epistle . |
| 7 | As part of the Pest Control High Flyers campaign , winners of quarter three 's incentive were given the chance to fly . |
| 8 | The terms of reference for Sir Douglas Black 's investigation were to examine the evidence concerning the alleged cluster of cancer cases in the village of Seascale , to consider the need for further research and to make recommendations . |
| 9 | During the first course Duke Humphrey 's guests were to contemplate the representation of a ‘ galaunt yonge man ’ standing on a cloud ( signifying the element ‘ air ’ ) at the beginning of spring ( associated with the sanguine humour ) . |
| 10 | Footsteps and the sound of a boy 's voice were approaching the hedge . |
| 11 | Martinho 's men were to form the nucleus of a Danuese battalion which would take the brunt of the war against FAKINTIL . |
| 12 | In their earnest and determined way , the promoters of women 's employment were calling the bluff of the skilled journeyman , but without appreciating the violence of feelings aroused by the threat not just of cheap labour but of cheap female labour . |
| 13 | But he says that when his grandfather and his grandfather 's brother were starting the Store and stayed late every night to do the office work , they used to hear sounds in the walls and they used to tell each other there were little Store people . |