Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's really rather curious how although David was happy to give me the names of these various lab magazines , lab equipment things , erm , he was very chary of sending me er copy of his own production . |
| 2 | Even the genial Binkie Beaumont was prepared to pay him a third of what the experienced Emlyn Williams knew he was worth and could get . |
| 3 | Maggie was ready to give him the glory , to return to him and stay with him forever . |
| 4 | The UK was prepared to set itself the " very demanding target " of stabilizing total UK emissions of CO2 at 1990 levels by 2005 as part of " a wide international effort , with a fair distribution of the burden " , and " provided others are ready to take their full share " . |
| 5 | When one of the men he had employed as a ploughman in the autumn came to the farm , more in hope than the expectation of finding any work , Seb was able to offer him a day 's pay . |
| 6 | He was so damned humble that O'Hara was obliged to offer him a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | Mrs Burrows was careful to indicate what a privilege this was , her only son and she , Alexandra , a nobody and a temporary resident at that . |
| 8 | The incredible thing was Luigi was happy to give him the shirt — that 's how important he was . ‘ |
| 9 | Hitler was able to offer them a new mass base for the apparent consolidation of their leadership positions within the framework of an authoritarian system , together with the prospect of Germany attaining a position of hegemony within Europe and even world power status . |