Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior man in the Ministry of Defence was telling us of the ‘ battle for hearts and minds ’ which his department is conducting among the people of the border villages . |
| 2 | This animal 's reaction to certain sequences of notes was to throw itself into uncontrollable convulsions . |
| 3 | Ironically , my immediate reaction to the outbreak of war was to fling myself in my imagination into the Royal Ascot of all demos , Vietnam . |
| 4 | A scattered crowd of locals was eyeing them in silence . |
| 5 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
| 6 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 7 | The function of underwriters was to commit themselves before the issue to buy the bonds at a set minimum price , if they could not be sold by the managing group at a price above this minimum . |
| 8 | For whatever that small voice of intuition was telling her about her destiny , common-sense decreed that the Prince already had a full hand of potential suitors . |
| 9 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 10 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 11 | Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter . |
| 12 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 13 | In short , ‘ marriage ’ with England was showing itself to be a severely limiting factor when other courtships were envisaged . |
| 14 | He laid out the argument : the Mirror had gone to Maxwell and dived downmarket , along with its Sunday counterpart ; the Mail on Sunday was repositioning itself after its disastrous launch , but had still not recovered . |
| 15 | Being English , she thought that a sure way of bestowing pleasure on strangers was to compliment them on their dogs . |
| 16 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 17 | To turn Christian , in the 1930s and after , was to declare for the past , and only Graham Greene among notable pre-war literary converts to Rome was to maintain anything like a left-Wing view of public affairs . |