Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] in the " 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 now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 3 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 4 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 5 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 6 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 7 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 8 | The answer was staring me in the face . |