Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 9 Iraq closed its borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq or Kuwait ; on Aug. 12 Donald Croskery , a British businessman , was shot dead by Iraqi forces on the Kuwait-Saudi border ; and on Aug. 16 all US and British citizens in Kuwait were ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 2 | On that Sunday evening Lady Eleanor was instructed to meet them outside the Galilee Gate . |
| 3 | But then Richard was persuaded to release him by Alfonso II , King of Aragon ( 1162–96 ) . |
| 4 | Ramsey was asked to meet him at dinner in Magdalene before the meeting and to second the vote of thanks in the Guildhall . |
| 5 | Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family . |
| 6 | Mr Reynolds was encouraged to take plenty of fluids orally ( up to litres per day ) including nourishing substances and to gradually increase his diet until it was equivalent to his usual intake at home . |
| 7 | Nigel was determined to have none of that during the next Parliament . |
| 8 | Émile was going to revenge himself on Jean-Claude for what he regarded as his arrogance . |
| 9 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 10 | After nearly a month of political stalemate and gathering crisis opposition leader Zhelyu Zhelev was elected to replace him on Aug. 1 . |
| 11 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |
| 12 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 13 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me . |
| 15 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 16 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 18 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 19 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 20 | I was expecting that Mrs was going to tell us about it . |
| 21 | The way Batty was handled strikes me as a sign that the management are not thinking along winning the championship this year but are prepared to bide their time . |
| 22 | It seemed to Talbot that Van Gelder was going to find himself in something of a quandary . |
| 23 | Erm his name James Buchanan James Buchanan was asked to do something about the violations of the Fugitive Slave Law , this is the one that returned slaves back to their owners , erm and Buchanan said , I quote wisely limited and restrained as is the president 's power under our constitution , he alone can accomplish but little for good or for evil on such a momentous question . |
| 24 | Because it had suddenly occurred to her that Guy Sterne was bothering to justify himself like this only because his relationship with Nicola Schreider was threatened if he did n't . |
| 25 | During September there were signs that Jordan was attempting to distance itself from Iraq in order to restore relations with its former allies in the Gulf . |
| 26 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 27 | Mozart was ordered to join him in Vienna immediately . |
| 28 | Before the Tate/LaBianca murders happened , however , Charles Manson was attempting to make it as a rock star . |
| 29 | Caroline remembered that moment when she had thought Nicolo was going to take her in his arms . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , hopefully , it 'll all be sorted out by now ; Jennifer was going to explain everything at home . ’ |