Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rune Christensen was amusing himself at her expense . |
| 32 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 33 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 34 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 35 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 36 | Near the end of his life Ramsey was asked which of his books he was most glad to have written . |
| 37 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 38 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 39 | Oh , Ken was asking us about that . |
| 40 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 41 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 43 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 44 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 45 | Leith 's mutiny ebbed when she thought how ill and distraught Travis was making himself over his love , and the seed of an idea of appealing to Travis to save her job withered before it was half born . |
| 46 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 47 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 48 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 49 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 50 | Who was , when Molly was telling me about Jason , when Jason sa , I could have murdered Ryan doing that ! |
| 51 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 52 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 53 | Li Yuan was telling me about it yesterday . |
| 54 | Yuan was saying something in his own tongue to one of his companions , the man Mubarak , who had been renamed Barakai . |
| 55 | Japanese records suggest that Kim was opposing them in May 1929 . |
| 56 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 57 | Work was carried our on a car park , enabling a gentler gradient for the athletes . |
| 58 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 59 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 60 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |