Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [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 | After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |