Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA .
2 But police have told Adrian that even though the driver admitted she was in the wrong , she 's unlikely to be prosecuted .
3 The official report from the hospital stated that when the President arrived he was in a state of complete coma , with no recordable blood pressure or pulse , ‘ the eyes wide open , with no response to light ’ , and no reflexes anywhere .
4 Mum noticed I was in a rather strange mood .
5 According to popular myth , Law discovered he was on the list to leave Old Trafford from a TV report when he was visiting his sick mother in Aberdeen .
6 ‘ The man who drilled for the test said it was among the hardest block he 'd ever seen .
7 In his summing-up , the judge said it was for the jury to decide if Christopher How had been dishonest .
8 The linesman said it was for a push and handball .
9 Byrne was not a particularly big man , standing only 5 feet 9 inches and weighing 13 stone , but Deaf Burke was even smaller at 5 feet 8½ inches , and 12 stone 7 lbs , so the Irishman felt he was onto a good thing .
10 The prison Governor says he was in a disturbed state .
11 AB alleges he discovered , through records obtained before he launched a £200,000 legal action against the transfusion service , that the donor knew he was in a high-risk group for HIV infection .
12 Maman said it was at the back , the other way from the bathroom end of the corridor .
13 The Prince felt he was in the company of someone very special , took great delight in time spent talking to him , and was inspired by all that he heard .
14 Where the church impinged it was as the representative of property and coercion rather than as a meaningful organisation .
15 British Gas said it was from a fractured pipe .
16 I 'd have said if he 'd been dead but Kevin 's mum said he was on the danger list . "
17 The only way to do it was as a comic .
18 He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field .
19 The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant …
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