Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 2 | They 'd relented , his Mum and Dad , and they were going to give him a parrot for Easter . |
| 3 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 4 | And he thought they were going to buy him a parrot . |
| 5 | The Lions selectors have an impassioned Irish performance to thank for that — and , according to coach Gerry Murphy , a little divine inspiration : ‘ We were going to keep it a secret , ’ he quipped , ‘ but we spent last weekend in Lourdes ’ . |
| 6 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 7 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 8 | Such a capture of French nationalism would probably have been impossible in Paris ; but , in Hanoi , circumstances were combining to make it a reality . |
| 9 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 10 | ‘ It was as if they were trying to give us a clue , deliberately toying with us . ’ |
| 11 | And erm and Miss asked why we were n't friends any more and we goes well she lied and you know , she splits up most people by doing that cos they were trying to tell us the truth and we would n't listen . |
| 12 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 13 | Thus the expansion of larger manufacturing firms was designed to give them the opportunity to expand output with protection from fluctuations in demand given by avoiding any excessive accumulation of fixed costs . |
| 14 | Clinton was expected to declare himself the winner at 4am British time , even before some polls on the west coast closed . |
| 15 | The club was expected to give him a run next week in one of two friendlies against non-League opposition , but last night coach Eddie May said : ‘ He is a good lad but is just a non-starter now . |
| 16 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 17 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 18 | The horse was made to foil her every move , leaping forward as she moved quickly and turning her away . |
| 19 | Though He was made sign the statement might pass , it would scarcely be idiomatic to say He was made give them the money . |
| 20 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 21 | At the Royal Institution , one could get popular science of a high standard ; and what was offered gives us an idea of what was seen as important . |
| 22 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
| 23 | Well , he was going to give them the chance , was n't he ? |
| 24 | It 's a cold morning and I was going to give him a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 25 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 26 | He was going to give her a job . |
| 27 | Having set it up , he said he was going to give us a demonstration coaching session . |
| 28 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 29 | I was g , I was going to get to read the newspaper report in the Mercury and the Mail , and when I appeared at Leicester Castle before a Judge , but er , I think , and I was going to give you a clue . |
| 30 | Ah that 's after when you , when Jehovah was going to destroy it the death , yes ? |