Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [pron] [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 | Work was carried our on a car park , enabling a gentler gradient for the athletes . |
| 3 | Eva 's desire to communicate the gospel was given plenty of outlets . |
| 4 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 5 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |
| 6 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |
| 7 | At Metz , in German-occupied Alsace-Lorraine , a station was built which with its German Romanesque frontage , Teutonic warrior statues , and stained-glass images of Charlemagne deliberately aimed to stress the current political status of the province . |
| 8 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 9 | Any new insolvent debtor 's bill was rejected one after another . |
| 10 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 11 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 12 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 13 | Another solution to the problem of gaining height was told me by one of my respondents , who dreamed of climbing a high flagpole . |
| 14 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 15 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 16 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |
| 17 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 18 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 19 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 20 | These clothes were got from a pawnshop in Kendal ; the rouge came from an acquaintance of Mrs Charlotte Deans , the actress ; the chaise was loaned us by a young friend of mine whose father owns the chief coaching firm in the town . |