Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its irresistible force was pushing everything before it . |
| 2 | There is no notable deceleration , but I do n't know that my mind was recording anything but fear , nor is there any particular screech or roll , but suddenly we 're around the corner and accelerating down towards the tunnel and Jackie 's saying , ‘ You can relax now , Keith . ’ |
| 3 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 4 | ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town . |
| 5 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 6 | The snow was smothering everything in whiteness , deadening all sound . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 11 | Yuan was saying something in his own tongue to one of his companions , the man Mubarak , who had been renamed Barakai . |
| 12 | ‘ The master plan was to put everyone at his ease . ’ |
| 13 | Eva 's desire to communicate the gospel was given plenty of outlets . |
| 14 | But Harold was having none of that . |
| 15 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 16 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 17 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 18 | Education was taking one in ten of the output of students and employed 18 per cent of those with jobs . |
| 19 | Number 60 's wife was shouting something at number 60 's children . |
| 20 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 21 | But the Croma was having none of it . |
| 22 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 23 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 24 | Her father was explaining something to her in that overloud , careful voice which he used to her mother , the voice which said : ‘ I know you are too stupid to understand this but I will talk slowly and loudly and hope that you wo n't try my patience too far . ’ |
| 25 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |
| 26 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 27 | Any new insolvent debtor 's bill was rejected one after another . |
| 28 | A man was preparing something for supper at a table . |
| 29 | It was often very hazardous and Mr Crangle , the librarian , wanted to buy a safety net for when someone climbed beyond shelf thirty but the Headmaster was having none of it . |
| 30 | This lotus-eating life was doing nothing for her . |