Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls and Branwell were learning to play the piano , and Branwell played the music in church . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 3 | Brentwood enjoyed a hard-fought home win over third-placed Batchwood , St Albans , whilst the Welwyn leaders collected eight points effortlessly , as their opponents Harpenden were forced to concede the tie . |
| 4 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 5 | Tavernier was determined to avoid the convention of co-productions in which a polyglot cast all speak dubbed American . |
| 6 | Item — Lady Eleanor was preparing to leave the priory and go to her secret admirer , but who was he ? |
| 7 | In the May congressional elections [ see p. 38908 ] the PUR had won 12 seats and the Conservative Party ( PCE ) of Vice-President-elect Alberto Dahik had won six , but Durán was expected to negotiate the support of at least two more parties . |
| 8 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 9 | In the end Meredith was forced to accept the threepence thrust into his palm . |
| 10 | Ceauşescu was determined to boost the population from around twenty million to thirty by the end of the century . |
| 11 | Ari was coming to like the idea of cornering the helpless Nathan with her whirlwind sexuality . |
| 12 | From this point contemporaries recognized that Richard was moving to take the throne . |
| 13 | From this point contemporaries recognized that Richard was moving to take the throne . |
| 14 | Grudgingly but fairly quickly Richard was induced to hand the castle over to his father . |
| 15 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 16 | On June 11 Zaki described the first round of talks as " constructive " and denied that Pakistan was seeking to reverse the administration 's decision to suspend aid . |
| 17 | The more the United States was seen to take the lead — especially at the UN — the better the prospect , so Eisenhower correctly calculated , of preventing yet more harshly worded motions in that forum . |
| 18 | Herbert Matthews , who was close to the Cuban revolutionaries from the late Sierra Maestra days , wrote that ‘ I made up my mind early in the revolution on the basis of many talks with all the top Cuban leaders that their greatest preoccupation was the conviction that the United States was determined to overthrow the Castro regime ’ ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 19 | NHG was advised to withdraw the advertising . |
| 20 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 21 | Mr. S. was instructed to transact the sale as normal and accordingly began to enter the sale on the computer . |
| 22 | Mr. S. was instructed to transact the sale in the normal way and accordingly he began to enter the sale on the computer . |
| 23 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 24 | Differences stemmed also from reports that Bhutto was seeking to erode the influence of the Army in the formulation of the country 's policy towards Afghanistan and to adopt a more conciliatory approach to the resolution of the Kashmir problem . |
| 25 | The matter had been raised in a petition to the parliament of 1305 , but was only confirmed now , presumably because , the papal see then being vacant , Edward was waiting to employ the statute as a lever on the new pope . |
| 26 | And Rex was left holding the baby . |
| 27 | ‘ Hey , Ellen ! ’ the doctor shouted down to the galley where Ellen was trying to disguise the fact that the frozen steaks were being thawed in a microwave . |
| 28 | She was told that the charge was going to be for four days and Ganley was going to save the business . |
| 29 | Like Sacre Coeur in Paris , Notre Dame , Fourviere was built to commemorate the end of the Franco-Prussian war — a conflict in which France was conclusively defeated . |
| 30 | Cwmbran were left to rue the goals they conceded in their 3-2 win at home two weeks ago . |