Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 2 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 3 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 4 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 5 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 6 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 7 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 8 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 9 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 10 | Work was carried our on a car park , enabling a gentler gradient for the athletes . |
| 11 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 12 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 13 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 14 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 15 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 16 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 17 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 18 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 19 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 21 | He decided that the only way to avoid spending the rest of his life in the workhouse was to exhibit himself as a freak , and so he offered himself to Sam Torr , who ran a music-hall , the Gaiety Palace of Varieties . |
| 22 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 23 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 24 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 25 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 26 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 27 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 28 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 29 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 30 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |