Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would think that my plan was to kill him and the King — and marry the Princess myself . |
| 2 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 3 | The way he was touching her and the expression in his eyes made her optimistic as she click-clacked beside him on her high heels . |
| 4 | Told me land and nobody , and a passenger , whether he was driving it or the passenger I do n't know . |
| 5 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 6 | He was driving her crazy the way he was holding her and the way he was looking down at her with smouldering blue eyes . |
| 7 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 8 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 9 | On one embarrassing occasion Queen Mary caught her earring on the beard of the plumber who was showing her that the lavatory cistern really worked . |
| 10 | Later , she was to ask herself if the decision had made any difference to subsequent events . |
| 11 | The officer with the harsh voice was advising him that the money would be ‘ charged to the Lord Advocate 's account ’ if he himself could not ‘ procure the funds ’ . |
| 12 | On November 21st he told Poindexter , who was advising him that the Justice Department ‘ fact-finding mission ’ was about to descend on his office , that he had got rid of them all . |
| 13 | When Strawalde freed himself of the constraints of narrative painting he became the father of sensuous abstract art in the DDR and now , in his sixties , is finally receiving the international recognition which was denied him before the Wall came down . |
| 14 | Three months ago Mr Garel-Jones , on the say-so of Mr Hurd and his Foreign Office lawyers , was telling everybody that the bill would be ‘ wrecked ’ if various of the 400-plus amendments under discussion were passed . |
| 15 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 16 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 17 | Strachan knocked the ball past Clarke and was following it when the Chelsea defender deliberately brought him down . |