Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each turn of the zigzag , the wheelbarrow toppled , and when I was tacking into the wind , grit , picked up by the wheel was blown into my eyes and mouth . |
| 2 | The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half . |
| 3 | Five years into his term , in 1972 , the BDDA at long last established headquarters at 38 Victoria Place , Carlisle , so that for the first time in its history the Association was run from its own national office by full-time paid officers . |
| 4 | The electric typewriter was covered by its hood and would remain covered while he was still there . |
| 5 | Hinchley 's thinking was reflected in his teaching and his methods trained men to work well in the chemical industry of the day . |
| 6 | I WISH to thank the very kind gentleman who gave me money when my purse was stolen from my handbag while I was shopping at Dunn 's store , St John 's Precinct . |
| 7 | Holly started back and something of the kindness was lost from his face . |
| 8 | The slow , steady rhythm was pulsing in her veins . |
| 9 | He is resentful that no aid was given to him — another villager was given 3,000 rupees to repair his house because , says Kirtana , he knew the local member of the Orissa state parliament . |
| 10 | Sarajevo : REBEL Serbs were last night roaming through the Moslem village of Cerska , just a day after the first U.S. aid was dropped to its besieged people . |
| 11 | The liquidator says that he can not say how much of the stock was supplied by our client , nor does he have any information as to whether or not the amount received from debtors includes any amount for the sale of AB stock originally supplied by our client . |
| 12 | The approach of denudation chronology was assimilated in what Jennings ( 1973 ) characterized as ‘ the geomorphic band waggon parade ’ in which a series of fashions in geomorphology were listed as denudation chronology , climatic geomorphology , morphometry , general systems approach , process study and structural geomorphology . |
| 13 | The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it . |
| 14 | A great deal was riding on it : some said the Fox studio was at stake . |
| 15 | A deal was struck under which Britain would allow US Cruise missiles to be sited on British soil . |
| 16 | He promised that the resistance would not lay down its arms until the last Soviet soldier had left Afghanistan and that if a deal was made over their heads the guerrillas would continue fighting even if foreign help were withdrawn . |
| 17 | ‘ Robyn , you 've got to understand — Mark was under a lot of pressure ; as I 've said , this was his first break into the big time , a great deal was expected of him . ’ |
| 18 | Geoff Wappett writes : ‘ A great deal was learned by everyone and , should the opportunity occur again , I would recommend that we make the trip again . |
| 19 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 20 | Pennethorne was examined on his controversy with Hall who , as well as being a member of the Committee , also gave evidence on this subject . |
| 21 | It was measured at between 6.5 and 7 on the Richter scale , but its destructive force was limited by its depth — 100-150 km beneath the earth 's surface [ for 1977 Romanian earthquake which killed 1,500 see p. 28298 ] . |
| 22 | What looked like a wedding ring was wedged on her thumb . |
| 23 | When she opened them , the wedding ring was held before her as Shamlou shone the torchlight on it . |
| 24 | Lucy looked at him reflectively , now understanding more clearly why Doreen thought she could make demands before a ring was put on her finger . |
| 25 | His fine balance in the ring was spotted by his future manager , Samuel Wilson , who ran a sixpence-a-week gymnasium . |
| 26 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 27 | Or , as Marx said , people 's consciousness was determined by their social being ( albeit not entirely determined by their economic position ) . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the window of his college bedroom was cherished in his memory because it enabled him to see the Antechapel of Trinity College , |
| 29 | His hair was sticky with blood and a purple bruise was spreading across his temple . |
| 30 | A common speed for XTs was 6MHz , and many Amstrad 1640/1512 users will be aware that a 10MHz clock speed was used in their machines . |