Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | This first Report was read by Professor Brian Griffiths , whose duty as Prime Minister 's adviser was to present it to Mrs Thatcher with his comments . |
| 3 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 7 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 8 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 9 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 10 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 11 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 12 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 13 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 14 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 15 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 16 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 17 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 18 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 19 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 20 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 21 | The black cat was eyeing her from upstairs . |
| 22 | Originally , the plan was to return them to their last known home , on Pitchfork Ranch near the little town of Meeteetsee , Wyoming . |
| 23 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 24 | I think my plan was to make her like me less . |
| 25 | He says the origninal plan was to raise it to 12p . |
| 26 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 27 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 28 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 29 | The Fat Controller was helping me to my feet . |
| 30 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |