Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I had some faint ideas about releasing , but David was able to give me some valuable advice on how to go about it .
2 By the end of the 1960s the CNAA was able to review its own substantial experience in establishing and maintaining degree level standards .
3 As premier earl , Harold was able to secure his own election to the throne , but was forced to defend it almost immediately against Scandinavian and Norman claimants .
4 Joseph was overjoyed to have his own cassowary .
5 Davide was walking now down the street which intersected with the woman 's shop ; she still gave sheets of pink blotting paper for change , and a photograph of her son was pinned up on the shelf behind her till ; the news was that he was in the army , but Davide was ashamed to inquire what that report concealed .
6 Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim .
7 Mrs Goreng was able to volunteer them some ( absolutely correct ) tourist information .
8 Thus , while the French economy ( as well as that of West Germany ) was clearly pulling ahead of the British , de Gaulle was eager to go his own way and even defy the United States ( not least in economic matters ) wherever it seemed appropriate .
9 By the end of the 1970s , however , Champagne had no need to transport the boues de ville from Paris since the city of Reims was able to provide its own .
10 The Fontanellatesi had a good sense of humour , which helped us to keep up our morale ; one rather large , well-educated lady called Fiora Gandini was able to make us all laugh .
11 Nina Clarey was the only one at OBEX who knew that her sister had once been engaged to the medical officer , and Rachel was anxious to keep it that way .
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