Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heighington Slide show : Villagers in Heighington were entertained recently with a slide show given by John Bennington . |
| 2 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 3 | They were due to meet a Bradman XI at Bowral the day after South Africa were playing there in a World Cup warm-up match . |
| 4 | The brothers ' crimes against Joseph were met eventually with a forgiveness as large as Esau 's , and this time the forgiveness was received , and given the response it deserved . |
| 5 | The fact that the individual types of ANCA were found only in a minority ( <50% ) of the sera tested is an argument in favour of this . |
| 6 | In the 31st minute Portadown were pulled apart by a glorious move from Loreto , but Gerry O'Neill failed to make contact when all she had to do was touch the ball home . |
| 7 | One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook . |
| 8 | Drawn with the ‘ open ’ Europe of 1993 in mind , it shows how some major cities of medieval Europe were bound together in a network of trade and travel . |
| 9 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 10 | Then , while the pirates and Famlio were staring piercingly at a new contingent of roisterers coming in , I decided to move . |
| 11 | This may well have been the aircraft seen to crash , and although Kennett and Waghorn were credited posthumously with a Ju88 probably destroyed , this could well have been their victim , no Ju88s being reported missing on this date . |
| 12 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 13 | Changes in CBV were recorded continuously by a cerebral oxygen monitor 105 Kritikon ( Johnson & Johnson ) . |
| 14 | In Cornwall , which was to grow into one of Methodism 's early strongholds , the teachings of John Wesley were absorbed only through a haze of superstitious beliefs and practices . |