Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a member of the Scottish Sports Council I was closely involved in setting up arrangements for access to rivers . |
| 2 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 3 | But they offered a very tempting fee simply to transport an art object , a sculpture , which they 'd bought as a centrepiece for a planetary arts festival they were staging . |
| 4 | The first version carried only 48bhp and went from 0 to 60mph in over 16 seconds , but compared to other post-war sports cars it was light , fast and above all , cheap . |
| 5 | Throughout the past Five Nations series it was said that Ireland had reached rock-bottom , particularly against Wales and Scotland , and the only way they could go was up . |
| 6 | After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial . |
| 7 | Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet . |
| 8 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 9 | Fleck 's unruly image was secured in November 1987 when along with four other Rangers players he was fined £1,000 by the club for his part in a notorious fracas in a bar in Airdrie . |
| 10 | For example , in Malone v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner it was held that since there was no law against telephone tapping and it did not amount to any common law wrong , it was not unlawful for the police to engage in it . |
| 11 | As a keen watersports enthusiast I was greatly alarmed to read in your news pages about the high quantities of toxic algae currently present in many of our inland waterways . |
| 12 | It was the seven shillings wages I was worried about , but I used to give that to me mother . |
| 13 | At the local police station it was the Serbian flag , not the federal colours , that was hoisted and saluted before the cameras of state-run Belgrade television . |