Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 2 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 3 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 4 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 5 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 6 | ‘ The poems we was reading last year , Mr Randolph . ’ |
| 7 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 8 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 9 | It would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 10 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 11 | The names they was callin' that Frank Galloway . |
| 12 | In order to provide effective compiler generate code from high level languages it was decided that VAX should have a very regular and consistent treatment of operators , avoid instructions unlikely to be generated by a compiler , include several forms of common operators , and replace common instruction sequences with single instructions . |
| 13 | From sixth century beginnings Bicester gradually grew into a focus for an area separate from Oxford , and during the Middle Ages it was granted various licenses for markets and fairs . |
| 14 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 15 | With forty picked men he was given special powers ; 228 wagons were needed , but only thirty had been sent to Siberia . |
| 16 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 17 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 18 | When he finally rejoined the others he was carrying several samples of rock , and there was very little light left . |
| 19 | Mann 's best-selling brew was its ‘ entire ’ , or porter , but like other East End brewers it was facing growing competition from Burton-brewed pale ales . |
| 20 | window and I sort of pinged the cat 's tray , you know , if I shut the door and walked back in and hid the paint on the side , and on a couple of occasions he was painting that window and suddenly this cat appeared outside |