Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 2 | The club was announcing its Brain of the Year for 1991 . |
| 3 | Jarvis thought he would enjoy hearing the sound of these trains while he was writing his history of the London Underground . |
| 4 | He also mentioned that an engineer from the Boeing company had arrived and was informing his company of the failure . |
| 5 | His principal objective was to clear his name of the suspicion attached to it . |
| 6 | As the taxi sped them into Rome , Nora had no chance to look at the view ; she was kept busy listening to Louise , who was giving her assessment of the situation . |
| 7 | A 1989 MORI Poll conducted by the BBC and The Independent newspaper argued that the ideology of Thatcherism was reaching its target of the young . |
| 8 | When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite . |
| 9 | She was awarded her fellowship of the British Psychological Society in early recognition of her distinguished work for child guidance in Scotland . |
| 10 | ‘ If I stuck a pom-pom on each nipple and waggled them in front of Jed , he 'd tell me I was blocking his view of the telly , ’ says Mandy . |
| 11 | The Stalinist leadership said it was scrapping its membership of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , which limits the spread of military nuclear technology . |
| 12 | The Palace was told that the only way to guarantee protection of her broadcast in future was to make it part of the Official Secrets Act and bring it under Government control . |