Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two more golden eagle sightings were ours on the way . |
| 2 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
| 3 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 4 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 5 | Ceauşescu was happy to meet this condition : for him , as for any true follower of Lenin , a trade union was ‘ a transmission belt of authority ’ ; if the union officials could not get the workers to meet their targets , failed to anticipate strikes , and then did not resolve them at once , what use were they to the regime ? |
| 6 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 7 | Whose turn was it for a facilities trip ? |
| 8 | What size was she at the time of change ? |
| 9 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 10 | Clare were you in the past |
| 11 | Clare were you in the past |
| 12 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |
| 13 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |