Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the hour I was getting reports coming through to me that the princess wanted to leave the Royal Family . |
| 2 | Every day I was sent a secret report by the Chief of Police , and the next afternoon I was playing cards with Fritz when Sapt brought it in . |
| 3 | Several times I was given money to go to the chemist 's for bitter aloes or penny royal or a bottle of gin from the outdoor . |
| 4 | By the time I got to Python I was getting £240 a week . |
| 5 | As a result I was having tantrums . |
| 6 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 7 | The lesser evil was to syphon off the unschooled violence which was wrecking Europe and to apply it usefully elsewhere . |
| 8 | They were arrested after chaining themselves to cranes which were loading logs on to barges in the port of Kuala Baram . |
| 9 | Oppenheimer himself was refused security clearance in December 1953 , four months after the first Russian H-bomb was exploded . |
| 10 | Copeland found that more tubers were infected after they had been passed over an elevator digger which was lifting stocks of heavily infested tubers . |
| 11 | But the SSD has hit back , claiming it was the Appeal Court rather than the department which was placing children at risk . |
| 12 | The man , who has not been named , was a passenger in a German army Jeep which was taking part in a NATO exercise on Salisbury Plain . |
| 13 | Marham was to provide all of the Washington aircraft for the review which was taking place on July 15 , 1953 ; a 12-ship formation and four a static display . |
| 14 | A good example of the latter is Signal toothpaste which was called Shield toothpaste . |
| 15 | The district is called the ‘ Addams area ’ by Suttles ; Jane Addams being the well known reformer who was operating Hull House in this area some fifty years earlier . |
| 16 | And was this strange emotion she was experiencing jealousy ? |
| 17 | The other appointments were Lee Dong Ho , who became Home Affairs Minister , Kang Hyon Wook who was made Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries Minister , and Noh Won Il who became Transport Minister . |
| 18 | that it came as no surprise that after six busy years with the Association she was appointed Deputy Head Teacher of the Doncaster School for the Deaf and Director of its Further Education Department . |
| 19 | July : appointment of Monzur Quader as Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation to replace Mamdudur Rahman Choudhry who was appointed Minister for Posts and Shipping . |
| 20 | For the young man from the Upton manor , the anxiously awaited witness who was to uncover truth at last , did not come . |
| 21 | Anyway , I was doing Catch My Soul , which was a rock Othello , starring Jack Good who was playing Othello himself . |
| 22 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 23 | North-East drivers who were fined £100 and ordered to pay £20 costs for crossing the weight restricted bridge were : Brian Robinson , 54 , of Spennymoor , who had a ten tonne truck ; Terence Cuthbertson , 49 , of Chester-leStreet , 17 tonne truck ; Anthony Jennings , 48 , of Middlesbrough , 16 tonne truck ; Geoffrey Storey , 49 , of Spennymoor , 16 tonne truck ; George Agar , 32 , of Malton , 38 tonne truck ; John Layton , 36 , of Langley Park , 17 tonne truck ; Raymond Brown , 46 , of Redcar , 17 tonne truck ; Bernard Hagen , 56 , of Gateshead 17 tonne truck ; Neil Wall , 37 , of Bowburn , 11 tonne truck and William Davison of Choppington in a 16 tonne truck . |
| 24 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 25 | All of a sudden , the activities of a chef who was arranging steaks and kebabs on a barbecue further down the garden caught Margrida 's attention . |
| 26 | Cattini got up and walked over to the barman who was wiping glasses . |
| 27 | In a reported case the same year , Lorraine Agu and Malcolm Hirst were members of a group of animal rights supporters who were demonstrating slogans and distributing leaflets about animal rights on a spacious pedestrian precinct in Bradford . |
| 28 | To determine the range of oxygen saturation in healthy children in Nairobi , which is 1670 m above sea level , oximetry was carried out in 87 normal healthy children aged 7 days to 36 months who were attending child welfare clinics for immunisation . |
| 29 | In Liverpool , all seafarers — seamen , firemen , donkeymen , greasers and similar grades who were the backbone of the NSFU and catering staff and shore gangs who were joining Cotter 's union — received 105 a week increase , abolition of the medical examination and the right to wear the button of the appropriate recognised union . |
| 30 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |