Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This was to give it movement and life and to ensure that the focus of attention was never blurred tor the audience . |
2 | The only way to dispel this was to drop their skinhead supporters — and this they did . |
3 | ‘ I thought so too , ’ Jenna murmured , trying to get her agitated breathing under control , quite sure that this was doing her no good at all when she had been told to go very carefully for a while . |
4 | All this was making my muscles feel slack and unused , and I wanted to sprint up the street just to feel myself alive again . |
5 | Ironically , I would argue cynically , the only way I could become acceptable was to turn my illness into a piece of work at one level . |
6 | Ironically , I would argue cynically , the only way I could become acceptable was to turn my illness into a piece of work at one level . |
7 | In a short study it is impossible to deal in depth with the vastly complex web of politics that surrounded Barbarossa ; a glance at the list of popes shows just how complex the situation was ; hardly had any pope become established and negotiations opened , than another was taking his place . |
8 | The effort to remain rigid was making her body quiver and she groaned against his neck , ‘ Make love to me … ’ |
9 | The second was to get my knitting room organised and the third was to buy a second machine ( a chunky ) . |
10 | ‘ The worst was keeping my hands from my dagger and my mouth shut . |
11 | This , at any rate , was the offer which Richard made to the King of France while the latter was disbanding his mercenaries at Bourges . |
12 | By training a teacher of the deaf , the latter was celebrating his silver jubilee as superintendent missioner at Leeds during the year of the Cardiff Congress . |
13 | The human rights organization Amnesty International was supporting his case , claiming that he was suffering " life-threatening " diseases which could not be treated in prison . |
14 | Enter expert witness Dr Alice Heim , a psychologist who said that , indeed , Mr X was faking his test answers . |
15 | A long French liner slipped majestically by with a mixture of European and Asian faces staring curiously from its rails , then the Arid was pushing its way through a swarm of sampans moving downriver on local errands , most of them rowed , to Joseph 's surprise , by women . |
16 | She heard a loud roar and realized that the 125 was sounding its air horn . |
17 | Two options were to be put to the Arab states , the first was to make their demands to Israel concerning borders , the return of the refugees , and so on , on the basis of determination to prosecute the war if Israel did not comply . |
18 | In these early days there were various mottos : the first was to keep their eye off numbers , the second was to have fun , the third was not to recruit anyone and the fourth was not to defend themselves . |
19 | In the parallel line of the submissive , a pretty , dark girl of about twenty was emptying her handbag on the instructions of a uniformed harridan . |
20 | The biggest was repeating his stage performance in The Dresser with Albert Finney in 1983 . |
21 | The planning movement of the 1930s was to find its apotheosis in the conduct of the war and the plans for post-war reconstruction in almost every field from social security to new town development . |
22 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
23 | She went into the shadowy house , where a boy of about four was holding his arm . |
24 | And , I 've gone out , it was n't that was hacking my fence mind , erm , it was another boy , I did n't know him with a , and I went out and I , I and he said , I was n't . |
25 | And that was to tingle his bell . |
26 | No it were n't ma , it were , it were it did its job , that was keep your heating up , cos you could blow it up and it |
27 | Since that was written our interest rates have risen in real terms to an all-time peak . |
28 | Then you replaced that , that was saving your heels . |
29 | What we call leading , that was picking your corn up . |
30 | She 'd have to find some way to forcefully evict him from her thoughts , and the only way to do that was to fill her mind with something completely different — like the party she was planning . |