Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
| 2 | Ian Paisley was once a member of the Shankill Road Lodge of the Orange Order and a lodge chaplain , but he resigned from the Order when the County Grand Lodge refused to expel Sir Robin Kinahan for attending a funeral service in a Roman Catholic chapel . |
| 3 | Assistant manager Edwin Stein was also a player under Fry and knows him better than most . |
| 4 | How would I know this Marie Savigny was secretly a member of the de Montfort coven , who wanted to come to England to plot mischief , perhaps even murder ? |
| 5 | S. Maria was originally a church built adjacent to a palace and was part of it , which probably accounts for its extensive and unusual character . |
| 6 | There need not , I reflected , be much in this , for Miss Macdonald was patently the soul of loyalty , and in her eyes no Stavanger — no male Stavanger , at any rate — could do anything wrong . |
| 7 | Monsieur Devraux was formerly an officer of the Infanterie Coloniale but he is now our most accomplished hunter of big game . " |
| 8 | ‘ I thought Miss Dixon was effectively a danger to the company because she was taking the law into her own hands , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I mean , listening to Duke Robillard was kinda the kiss of approval to what I was trying to do . |
| 10 | After this David Bellamy was almost an anti-climax , imploring his audience not to allow the local blanket bogs be destroyed . |
| 11 | There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ . |
| 12 | Gloddfa Ganol and LLechwedd Slate Caverns , Blaenau Ffestiniog — Blaenau Ffestiniog — Blaenau Ffestiniog was once the slate capital of the world . |
| 13 | Irving Layton was exactly the sort of man to further that : enthusiastic and bold , erudite and observant , worldly and street-wise , compassionate and cavalier ; he could throw all caution to the wind and sing and drink and dance the night away . |
| 14 | Spencer Stuart was certainly the loser when one of their senior consultants in Hong Kong , Paul Cheng , was searching for a director of corporate affairs for overseas trader Inchcape and decided to join them . |
| 15 | Ken Brown was then the culprit with a fair quota of fines , but it was his own fault . |
| 16 | Ari Famber was nearly a woman . |
| 17 | Van Gogh was also an epileptic and I think I can understand his passion and sense of isolation . ’ |
| 18 | The accident-prone Frank Spencer was just a step away from Runnicles , the witless bank clerk . |
| 19 | According to US intelligence reports North Korea was only a matter of months away from acquiring nuclear weapons capability . |
| 20 | ‘ No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this , ’ Wordsworth wrote : Cottle 's home in Wine Street was probably the setting in which ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ reached written form , and almost at once it was chosen to take a place of honour as the last of the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 21 | That gentility had , however , suffered a sea-change , for Celtic Crescent was now the centre of Cork 's ‘ Jewtown ’ . |
| 22 | Dermod Harland ( tenor sax ) was former lead tenor with the Irish Youth Jazz Orchestra ( of which Anthony Kerr was also a member ) and his Quartet have supported Scott Hamilton in the Guinness Spot , where Dermod was invited to guest with Humphrey Lyttelton in 1987 . |
| 23 | The image change in Señor Ortega was directly the result of Gould 's visit to Managua last December , two months before elections . |
| 24 | As the eldest and most senior member of the regular troupe William Hartnell was frequently the cause of many a recording break due to memory lapses occasionally so hilarious as to cause Directors and artists alike to question their accidence . |
| 25 | Any suggestion that the Falkland Islands were similarly the subject of a ‘ holy ’ war would never have been mooted , let alone taken seriously . |
| 26 | It 's because Mr Harvey was already a millionaire that he was able to indulge his fancy to have a stud farm — not the other way round . |
| 27 | The school was extremely pleased with the news , he said , because Mr Burge was precisely the sort of teacher who deserved such a vote . |
| 28 | Secondly , Sir Angus was barely a year out of the Civil Service after a career which had taken him to the chairmanship of the Customs and Excise . |
| 29 | Even if X. Ray was only the Baptist to some little woodchuck 's saviour , I do know that nothing died with Osvaldo except his own faults . |
| 30 | Mr. Stavanger was clearly a man with an orderly mind . |