Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reply was to give her a sharp pull forward and then a shove in the back , which knocked her to her knees . |
| 2 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 3 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 4 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 5 | Joe Meek 's last big hit was Have I the Right by the Honeycombs . |
| 6 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 8 | So the retching was worrying me a bit . |
| 9 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 10 | Hitherto , Blackpool 's aim had been to crush-load its trams to bursting-point , now the object was to give them a comfortable ride for their money . |
| 11 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 12 | Her father was reading her the story , a long time ago . |
| 13 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 14 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 15 | We went the bank the other day and er the assistant manager was showing me a picture of his Range Rover . |
| 16 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 17 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
| 18 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 19 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 20 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 21 | The prescription was to offer them no reason for distinguishing between employers who , as custodians for the State , managed those centre-pieces of Socialist attainment , the nationalised industries ; and those who managed privately owned industries . |
| 22 | Those , mainly Conservative councils , that were spending below the standard spending levels were tempted to spend more and gain more grant ; those that were spending so much that government was giving them no grant could suffer no more penalties ; and all kinds of ingenious methods were used to avoid the penalties through creative accounting . |
| 23 | My own advertising was giving them the the service and the quality . |
| 24 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 25 | The navigator was giving me the countdown ; as soon as the needles on the oil-temperature gauge started moving I would be off , making sure I took-off on time as this would be vital for the rest of the squadron . |
| 26 | If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for . |
| 27 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 28 | This problem was to make it the most accident-prone routine in Tiller history . |
| 29 | The idea was to teach us the beauty of the English language . |
| 30 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |