Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 2 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
| 3 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 4 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 5 | Serum pepsinogen I was measured in the sample taken immediately before starting the meal by the commercial radioimmunoassay kit manufactured by Incstar Ltd ( Berkshire , UK ) . |
| 6 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 7 | As a result I was ridiculed by the other children . |
| 8 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 9 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 10 | However , the European Court has held that a trade association which was established outside the Community and had no part in implementing a price agreement which infringed Article 85 was not subject to the EC competition rules . |
| 11 | Dusan Plut , chair of the party , had said earlier that he wished the Greens to " act as a constructive opposition " but later agreed to join the coalition which was led by the outgoing Prime Minister , Janez Drnovsek of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDS ) . |
| 12 | Have you had a copy of , dare I say it , the tabulation which was produced by the panel , which summarized the various er submissions , and if I just read them to you . |
| 13 | Pat Goodman , head of New Zealand 's Goodman Fielder Wattie food group , has withdrawn from the fray in Britain after buying a stake in Ranks Hovis McDougall , mounting a bid which was stalled by the Office of Fair Trading then pocketing a profit by selling his shares to Sir James Goldsmith and partners . |
| 14 | The Head of Department was first asked to specify how he and his colleagues assessed their pupils ' work , illustrating the process by assessing a pencil drawing which was mounted on the wall . |
| 15 | The Duke stared at Sharpe for a few seconds , then flinched at the blood which was caked on the Rifleman 's jacket . |
| 16 | The administration of President Frei ( 1964-70 ) initiated a land reform programme which was accelerated by the Popular Unity government of President Allende ( 1970-73 ) . |
| 17 | Eight people described consequences of school closure which were related to the extent or the quality of interaction and social cohesiveness within the community . |
| 18 | The header contains information about the writer ( e.g. sex , age , handedness etc ) , the date the sample was collected , the style of writing used ( e.g. lower case , upper case , cursive ) , and one or more sentences indicating the script which was written by the subject . |
| 19 | This process can be traced back until we arrive at a single cell which was formed at the moment of conception by the fusion of two parental germ cells , i.e. one egg and one sperm cell . |
| 20 | Alexei was sitting on the end of a low couch which was positioned in the centre of the room . |
| 21 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 22 | His parents hope the tape which was taken to the hospital this morning by the Cheetah 's co-promoter Peter York will help Dean regain consciousness . |
| 23 | That is precisely the background to the study which was conducted by the four chiefs of defence staff , they were asking that kind of question and I 'll now ask the Group Captain to respond . |
| 24 | In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right . |
| 25 | Robyn rose early to skies that promised a truly blissful day of warm summer sunshine , showered and dressed and then drove off in her dilapidated jeep which was packed to the gunwales with everything she might possibly need for the day ahead . |
| 26 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 27 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 28 | LORD LAWSON was in charge of the Treasury before Norman Lamont and is blamed for the boom which was followed by the present bust . |
| 29 | The proclamation may not have had the effect which was desired for the next lease to come to light is 17 years later , between Sir John Pennington bart. , and Thomas Gorsuch of London , described as a goldsmith . |
| 30 | In the late nineteenth century Sinhalese élites invented a racial consciousness which was based on the assumption that all who spoke Sinhala were of Aryan origin . |