Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 2 | " It 's one of the things I was telling you about . |
| 3 | Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add . |
| 4 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 5 | At once he was contrite , and in seconds he was hurrying her to his car . |
| 6 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 8 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |
| 9 | Thus developed in Lebanon a pattern of events which was to recreate itself in increasingly savage form over the coming years . |