Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 3 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 4 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 5 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 6 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 7 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 8 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 9 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 10 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 11 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 12 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 13 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 14 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 15 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |
| 16 | One depressing surprise , though , was afforded me by a report on neighbourhood shopping centres . |