Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 2 | If Madeleine was enjoying herself with her ‘ Pogo ’ , he could enjoy himself with Cora-Beth , who probably cared about him far more than Madeleine ever had . |
| 3 | The one , the thing that I actually picked up on is tt erm in the greeting part of it you , you started very well and then Martin seemed to take control and you almost felt as if Martin was interviewing you at one point and erm you tried to get the control back and that 's when you went straight into the statement of purpose , because Martin was taking control . |
| 4 | Two of them made her feel , not old exactly , but as if life was passing her by They were the one from Joanne that said , " You 've reached a quarter century " and the one from Stephen , " My dearest wife " . |
| 5 | There was an added difficulty that the three of then , would break into convulsions of laughter , verging on hysterics , with Hopper somewhere off camera rolling around in the bushes and , according to Nicholson , ‘ totally freaked out ’ while Jack was forcing himself to be relatively straight , do his serious acting and hold the whole thing together : ‘ This used to be a helluva good country … ’ |
| 6 | Neoplasticism dispensed with all curvature while Cubism was contrasting it with straights . |
| 7 | Who was , when Molly was telling me about Jason , when Jason sa , I could have murdered Ryan doing that ! |
| 8 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 9 | When Alsace was rebuilding itself as part of France after the war , it decided to create a single appellation and to use grape variety names rather than vineyard sites . |
| 10 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
| 11 | ‘ I got the most stick when Clinton was defending himself against allegations of an affair . |
| 12 | How difficult was it Mandy to think when Jenny was asking you about your holiday ? |
| 13 | Ironically , at the same time as Babes was killing himself in protest against Ceauşescu 's tyranny , the BBC ran a holiday programme detailing the pleasures of skiing around Braşov and suggesting that viewers go to Romania for a glimpse of glasnost . |
| 14 | When Smith was recommending it on television he said , ‘ I wish we could get beyond colour as the criterion and choose to be governed by the best men for the job . ’ |