Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detroit was paving the way for Mueller to take over and run the whole bloody show from America . |
| 2 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 3 | Nellie was doing the same at the other side . |
| 4 | ‘ The first time , ’ he said , ‘ I was standing at Sandown airport and told this man that Frank Spencer was flying the plane that was coming down to land . |
| 5 | The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage , but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident . |
| 6 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 7 | The ‘ I Should Be So Yucky ’ headlines returned as though by becoming more glamorous Kylie was jettisoning the secret of her success — her ordinariness . |
| 8 | Erm what 's his name Alan Titchmarsh was doing the interviewing . |
| 9 | She would have been surprised to learn that observant Dr Neil was thinking the same of her and her abundant energy . |
| 10 | ( It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it . ) |
| 11 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 12 | In 1306 , after a career of service to Edward I in Wales , Scotland , France , Ponthieu and Aquitaine , Jean was given the earldom of Richmond by a king notoriously mean in his endowment of earls . |
| 13 | In Lisbon at that precise moment Walter Schellenberg was climbing the steep cobbled alley in Alfama towards the Lights of Lisbon . |
| 14 | Rovers vice-chairman Geoff Dunford explained : ‘ Dennis was given the option to work alongside Allison , but he chose to leave . ’ |
| 15 | Nicholson was obviously very grateful and benefited from the continuing rewards as the film made its way to Europe , where Dennis was voted the best new director of the year at Cannes . |
| 16 | Dennis was knocking the stuff back like lager , not even bothering with his usual patter . |
| 17 | Zelah was clearing the table . |
| 18 | When he came out , Kahn was advancing the thesis that thermo-nuclear war had to be made into a practical proposition , because a totally disarmed world which renounced war was unbelievable . |
| 19 | Down was reversing the route until a bold decision to descend through trees was taken , a decision that in retrospect seemed debatable . |
| 20 | In stressing the more ‘ reasonable ’ or rational character of African art , Picasso was underlining the quality that distinguishes it most fundamentally from Western art . |
| 21 | Already in 1922 , Wheatley was attacking the conventional view that internationalism held the key to ending unemployment : |
| 22 | And , on top of everything else , she had no way of knowing whether Veronica was telling the truth . |
| 23 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 24 | ‘ More or less , but I 've a feeling Nevil was holding the car door at the time . ’ |
| 25 | Sister Aloysius was wiping the hand now with a piece of rough linen she had taken from a pocket in her habit . |
| 26 | WITH Midnight Cowboy in the can , Dustin was given the opportunity to return to the stage in the title role of Jimmy Shine , a Broadway-bound play by his friend Murray Schisgal . |
| 27 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 28 | it is , it 's exactly ten years although I reckon like , well , the thing is , these like late bookers like Richard was saying the other day , the flight ones , you du n no where your going |
| 29 | Even while Richard was attending the crusading conference at Le Mans a rebellion broke out in Aquitaine . |
| 30 | All the while she was talking Kathleen was undressing the woman . |