Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems facing physicists who sought to apply general relativity to these newly discovered or hypothetical objects was to make it compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 2 | Only his raging insanity was keeping him going . |
| 3 | Max had heard from his office that I was seeking to speak to him and his friendly response was to telephone me himself . |
| 4 | He sounded half asleep and an approaching truck was flashing its lights . |
| 5 | I gather randy old Ivor was screwing your missus . |
| 6 | ROY McEnhill , boss of coach giant National Express , yesterday slammed talk that aggressive price-cutting by British Rail was battering his profits . |
| 7 | Following his experience of the 1880s , Wilson 's initial approach to the problem of foreign seamen was to regard them as a danger to his union , both in providing cheap labour and in posing a threat to its policy of restricting the manning of ships to its own members . |
| 8 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 9 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 10 | This time , the Daily Mail was reporting his conviction for armed robbery . |
| 11 | If the would-be Finian was wounded he was not accepted . |
| 12 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 13 | What they were doing , the old vixen was walking them higher up into the mountain for safety . |
| 14 | No attempt at organised march was made whatsoever , but by the time the Croats , both soldiers and civilians , had passed the road junction … leading to Bleiburg , they had been stripped of everything they possessed , including animals , carts , bicycles , food and personal belongings etc . |
| 15 | Why , the old lady was quizzing her ! |
| 16 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 17 | Luckily , traditionally , builders do n't work Sundays , and there was a huge pile of the stuff next door , where Old Pete was having his gaff done up by a lad with an earring and purple Escort ( traditional tools of the trade ) . |
| 18 | Already , the swift-moving German vanguard was groping its way into the Bois des Corbeaux ; the only wood near the Mort Homme , where those well-tried infiltration tactics could be used to excellent advantage . |
| 19 | His favourite tactic was to divide his forces into two armies , one under himself or a son , and the other under a powerful noble with experience of battle . |
| 20 | You do n't realise how many inflections are possible in one word and every important word the wrong inflection was used you know . |
| 21 | One old dear was doing her knitting . |
| 22 | The government 's original proposal for the SERP scheme in the Green Paper on the Reform of Social Security was to abolish it altogether ( DHSS , 1985a ) . |
| 23 | On testing for hepatitis B surface antigen after informed consent was obtained we found that most subjects had negative results ( 9/14 , 64% ) ; three ( 21% ; 0.03% of all those vaccinated ) had positive results ; there was no follow up testing on one patient , and the other was later found to have a low level of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen produced in response to an additional dose of vaccine . |
| 24 | However , to knock down old buildings was to put himself beyond the pale — not before time perhaps , but hardly for the right reason . |
| 25 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 26 | Like Lord 's , Old Trafford was celebrating its centenary of Test cricket , and , as before , Gordon Greenidge marked the occasion by scoring a double century . |
| 27 | Old Red was studying me clinically . |
| 28 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 29 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |
| 30 | We only have the year 's agreement on our place — will the laird turn us out if Kenneth signs the paper ? ’ a nervous yellow-haired woman was asking him . |