Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 2 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 3 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 4 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 5 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 6 | To turn Christian , in the 1930s and after , was to declare for the past , and only Graham Greene among notable pre-war literary converts to Rome was to maintain anything like a left-Wing view of public affairs . |
| 7 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 8 | Churchill was telling everyone of the dangers in Europe but no one would listen . |
| 9 | George Orwell was warning everyone of the plight of poverty-stricken masses , whose only salvation was socialism and not the sort recommended by vegetarian cranks in sandals . |