Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oppenheimer himself was refused security clearance in December 1953 , four months after the first Russian H-bomb was exploded . |
| 2 | The other appointments were Lee Dong Ho , who became Home Affairs Minister , Kang Hyon Wook who was made Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries Minister , and Noh Won Il who became Transport Minister . |
| 3 | July : appointment of Monzur Quader as Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation to replace Mamdudur Rahman Choudhry who was appointed Minister for Posts and Shipping . |
| 4 | Anyway , I was doing Catch My Soul , which was a rock Othello , starring Jack Good who was playing Othello himself . |
| 5 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 6 | That 's when Major , who was on the photo , he was Major in the army of nineteen fourteen eighteen M C Major M C , military cross well he took charge and er a chap off the shop floor , well he was an old contemptible of the nineteen fourteen to eighteen war , name of Bert he was made Sergeant because he was only one who had got any military experience , and he started with us on the shop floor in doing foot drill . |
| 7 | When he last appeared before Lightman he was fined £12,000 and suspended from five tournaments for head-butting Paul Hatherell , the WPBSA tournament director , during the 1986 UK championship . |
| 8 | Christie 's agent was unaware of the race last night but the sprinter announced on Friday he was shelving plans for a £250,000 race against Carl Lewis and — as Super Sport forecast last month — the clash will place next year . |
| 9 | Now she found that , on the contrary , it was Nannie who was offering love and comfort to her . |
| 10 | He lost the leadership of Leeds to Ellery Hanley and it was Hanley who was made skipper of Great Britain in Australia this summer . |
| 11 | However , by late July there were increasing signs of public frustration at the political impasse , with student demonstrations being reported in the capital Yangon ( Rangoon ) and also in Mandalay and Prome . |
| 12 | Also in February he was discussing ideas for a Botticelli ballet and for a Debussy ballet ; these eventually coalesced into one idea , Primavera . |
| 13 | In May he was appointed governor of Newark and colonel-general of Nottinghamshire , Lincolnshire , and Rutland . |
| 14 | Beaton was initially given a sop ; on 10 January he was made chancellor . |
| 15 | He fingered his tie , a particularly vivid one that day , and went straight on to the purpose of their meeting , which was to ask her to help Frank Shildon who was investigating aspects of the MacQuillan empire . |
| 16 | He appealed to William who was cutting leather at the other end of the bench . |
| 17 | During the building of Cat Bank £3 was paid to Thomas Barrow for damage to his adjoining land , but it was Joseph Barrow who was paid £5 : 13s. : 9d. for land taken to widen the road from the Black Bull Inn to the fell gate — in all 273 yards at 5d . |
| 18 | I know , at one time o' day in Shoreham I was doing ballast — in the Mount Blairie that was — and the owd mate was tipping these baskets of shingle into the hold , the empty hold . |
| 19 | In truth , however , Phil himself was finding Nancy Wiseman a little too effusive for his liking and — perversely , as it seemed — would have preferred sitting next to Janet Roscoe , up there at the front of the coach , as he listened to ( and indeed almost wholly managed to hear ) the end of Ashenden 's introduction to Bath : |
| 20 | She had brief glimpses of him in the wings , his head unpleasantly close to the head of a girl called Mona who was playing Prince Charming . |
| 21 | MALCOLM TOWN , the drug wholesaler from Harrogate , North Yorkshire who was fined £6000 last year for importing cheap drugs and undercutting National Health Service prices , is at it again . |
| 22 | ‘ That girl would read tissue paper if there was nothing else , ’ exclaimed Carrie who was visiting Julia . |
| 23 | Martin who was directing pop videos at the time showed me the video just after leaving college . |
| 24 | In a chair opposite sat Tom who was drinking tea and looking at a book . |
| 25 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 26 | ‘ Sounds like a great idea to me , ’ she agreed , glancing dubiously at Stephen who was throwing water onto the dying embers . |
| 27 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 28 | ‘ At Mike Mahoney 's down in Marsh Street they were laying odds on thee having been cut up for cats-meat . ’ |
| 29 | On 7 November he was made justiciar of north Wales for life in place of Hastings to whom Warwick had given the office in the previous August . |
| 30 | On 7 November he was made justiciar of north Wales for life in place of Hastings to whom Warwick had given the office in the previous August . |