Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the Bey of Tunis was building himself a superb mausoleum . |
| 2 | His reply was to give her a sharp pull forward and then a shove in the back , which knocked her to her knees . |
| 3 | But like er , she took it sch to school and Scott was giving us a lift to school so did n't have to walk and she 's in the car and she 's going if this gets if this gets all smashed up Scott I hope you realise I 'm blaming you ! |
| 4 | When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look . |
| 5 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 6 | I can not quite remember the title of the Ballet , but Miss Margot Fonteyn was on her way up , we were quite sure , and that redhead Moira Shearer was running her a good second . |
| 7 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 8 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 9 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 10 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 11 | Anyway , by the time Maureen went on her annual holiday , Biggles was feeding himself a bit and coming on well , so I took over . |
| 12 | The problem for British producers seeking to emulate Korda 's achievement was to define what an international British film might be . |
| 13 | came across dry ginger one of my school girlfriends was giving me a recipe , which , for which one er fo for erm ginger beer |
| 14 | So the retching was worrying me a bit . |
| 15 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 16 | Hitherto , Blackpool 's aim had been to crush-load its trams to bursting-point , now the object was to give them a comfortable ride for their money . |
| 17 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 18 | But , but , but I think that the Reverend David Brian was saying something a little bit erm more direct and more overarching than dealing only with those people that you 're talking about , were n't you , David ? |
| 19 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 20 | Belpan was outside the EC 's sphere of influence so the Colonel was doing someone a favour . |
| 21 | We went the bank the other day and er the assistant manager was showing me a picture of his Range Rover . |
| 22 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 23 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
| 24 | Bruno was offering him a sticky-looking liqueur from a tall thin bottle . |
| 25 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 26 | Michael Ryan was offering him a face saver and he knew it . |
| 27 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 28 | His goal was to make himself a fortune . |
| 29 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 30 | The idea was to give everybody a reasonable chance of answering some questions , not merely by general railway knowledge , but by dint of having supported Society events . |