Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forced to work at home , he developed techniques for preparing and collecting gases using what was to hand . |
| 2 | Who else but Daly could be humble enough to offer to withdraw from the 1993 US Ryder Cup team if his team-mates do n't want him , and get fined for fast play , officials deciding he was in contempt by completing the second round of the TPD Championship in just over two hours . |
| 3 | There was no soot in the mists and fog which came from the river , and no garbage in the gutters like there was in London . |
| 4 | The callers said it was in Oxford Street where there are hundreds of stores . |
| 5 | I was acutely aware of the urgent need to find some work to do , so I combed the national and local newspapers to see what was on offer . |
| 6 | As a boy , friends said he was in love with the cadet corps . |
| 7 | Such an exhortation was meant to encourage adolescents to accept what was in effect an ideological belief , namely , that ‘ any service for which payment is accepted , however humble it may be , is to be regarded as a service to the community and to be conscientiously performed . ’ |
| 8 | Police confirmed he was under arrest . |
| 9 | She did everything loudly : loud sneeze , loud blowing of the nose , loud banging of doors when she was in a temper ; she would march ( she always marched ) into the kitchen , clattering all the saucepan lids to see what was for supper , saying ‘ brrr ’ and turning up the heater , turning on the telly , tapping her foot to the music . |