Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each turn of the zigzag , the wheelbarrow toppled , and when I was tacking into the wind , grit , picked up by the wheel was blown into my eyes and mouth . |
| 2 | On Emancipation Day Buxton was presented by his family with a seal , salver and vase — the two latter inscribed with the motto ‘ Safe and Satisfactory ’ . |
| 3 | The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half . |
| 4 | Five years into his term , in 1972 , the BDDA at long last established headquarters at 38 Victoria Place , Carlisle , so that for the first time in its history the Association was run from its own national office by full-time paid officers . |
| 5 | The electric typewriter was covered by its hood and would remain covered while he was still there . |
| 6 | Hinchley 's thinking was reflected in his teaching and his methods trained men to work well in the chemical industry of the day . |
| 7 | I think he would have tore into Russell the next second , with his fists or his revolver , but now the Spencer was levelled at his belly ; almost touching it . |
| 8 | I WISH to thank the very kind gentleman who gave me money when my purse was stolen from my handbag while I was shopping at Dunn 's store , St John 's Precinct . |
| 9 | Holly started back and something of the kindness was lost from his face . |
| 10 | The slow , steady rhythm was pulsing in her veins . |
| 11 | Madonna openly boasted of her ten year plan , now Kylie was drawing up hers . |
| 12 | He is resentful that no aid was given to him — another villager was given 3,000 rupees to repair his house because , says Kirtana , he knew the local member of the Orissa state parliament . |
| 13 | Sarajevo : REBEL Serbs were last night roaming through the Moslem village of Cerska , just a day after the first U.S. aid was dropped to its besieged people . |
| 14 | The liquidator says that he can not say how much of the stock was supplied by our client , nor does he have any information as to whether or not the amount received from debtors includes any amount for the sale of AB stock originally supplied by our client . |
| 15 | ‘ What Bert was saying about my ‘ harem ’ , ’ he said easily as the car purred forwards into the traffic . |
| 16 | All at once , a dignified Jeff was walking towards her and Guido , looking Guido straight in the eye as though he had nothing to fear . |
| 17 | The approach of denudation chronology was assimilated in what Jennings ( 1973 ) characterized as ‘ the geomorphic band waggon parade ’ in which a series of fashions in geomorphology were listed as denudation chronology , climatic geomorphology , morphometry , general systems approach , process study and structural geomorphology . |
| 18 | The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it . |
| 19 | A great deal was riding on it : some said the Fox studio was at stake . |
| 20 | A deal was struck under which Britain would allow US Cruise missiles to be sited on British soil . |
| 21 | He promised that the resistance would not lay down its arms until the last Soviet soldier had left Afghanistan and that if a deal was made over their heads the guerrillas would continue fighting even if foreign help were withdrawn . |
| 22 | ‘ Robyn , you 've got to understand — Mark was under a lot of pressure ; as I 've said , this was his first break into the big time , a great deal was expected of him . ’ |
| 23 | Geoff Wappett writes : ‘ A great deal was learned by everyone and , should the opportunity occur again , I would recommend that we make the trip again . |
| 24 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 25 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 26 | She felt Johnny 's body stiffen , and the mellow , languid expression in his eyes was replaced by something infinitely less comforting . |
| 27 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 28 | In 1542 , when Rutland was nominated lord warden of the marches , Markham was appointed to his inner council . |
| 29 | Rachel , her hands on her hips , half laughing with exasparation , wondered just what demands the formidable Irene Markham was putting on her son . |
| 30 | Pennethorne was examined on his controversy with Hall who , as well as being a member of the Committee , also gave evidence on this subject . |