Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retired coal miners and men from the general population in North Nottinghamshire were sent a dyspepsia questionnaire to fill in , and those with upper gastrointestinal symptoms were invited for gastroscopy and biopsy . |
| 2 | Well no he went out but they somebody ran in there and h well B Brian and I think Pat and David were having a drink with him and I think they suddenly thought well he 's been in there a long time . |
| 3 | Donald Carr , chairman of the panel , said : ‘ Surrey were given a warning last year for repeated offences and that is why the matter was reported to the disciplinary committee . ’ |
| 4 | To be fair , Down were fielding a scratch squad and goalkeeper Ashley Gibson was blameless as he denied Instonians at least half a dozen more goals with an outstanding display . |
| 5 | In his declared aim of regenerating Spain for his own profit Napoleon was to inherit a portion of these ambitions . |
| 6 | In addition James Stein was appointed a vice-president and John McDonald , Alex McTaggart and Dr. Crawford added to the membership . |
| 7 | On the home front there are also the tales that Kylie was buying a house with Jason Donovan in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond . |
| 8 | As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality . |
| 9 | Warner Brothers said PWL stepped into the breach and were putting together the songs for the movie , including using several old 50 ’ s classics by Little Richard , Eddie Cochran and all , while Kylie was doing a cover version of ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , by Little Anthony and the Imperials , and looking for a Christmas Number One . |
| 10 | In 1536 , when the court of augmentations was established to deal with the lands acquired by the Crown through the dissolution of the smaller monasteries , Stumpe was appointed a receiver for north Wales , with a generous travelling allowance besides his salary of £20 p.a . |
| 11 | They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research . |
| 12 | Er why did , what do you mean Bedlam was doing a rave at |
| 13 | Edgar was offered a grant for six months ; after that he was on his own . |
| 14 | Both French nationals , Mrs de Menil was born a Schlumberger , an Alsatian family whose fortune was made in oil drilling equipment , and which transferred is centre of operations to Texas in 1942 . |
| 15 | In Roirbak 's laboratory wing , Ari was watching a movie too , though of a slightly different nature to any Roirbak had set out for Nathan 's entertainment . |
| 16 | Roche was beaten a length on Desert Team , who had set sail for home through the testing ground but was collared by the John Oxxtrained Sinissipi . |
| 17 | Abel was granted a benefit in 1895 after fourteen years with the club and took the Surrey-Yorkshire game . |
| 18 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 19 | Andy was supervising a chlorination at a large tape manufacturers in Middlesbrough when the opportunity came for him to test drive the vehicle . |
| 20 | cos Andy was having a lunch anyway at work and er |
| 21 | She shrugged and looked away , over to where Hector was investigating a hole in the base of the stable wall , not having noticed the new arrival . |
| 22 | We thought it was about time Shevardnadze was given a platform . |
| 23 | Rafiq was doing a lot of waving into the darkness , as if he expected something to appear — a deputation from the Noise Abatement Society , thought Robert , if they all carried on like this for much longer . |
| 24 | In recognition of his work with the Council and other bodies , David was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1991 , and this month he receives the honorary degree of Doctor of Education from Napier University . |
| 25 | Fanshawe was giving a kind of war whoop as , through the grey fumes , I saw the unmistakable figure of Quigley . |
| 26 | The United States was to negotiate a framework agreement with the four countries . |
| 27 | ‘ Mahoney was spending a lot of money on himself . |
| 28 | Caddie Ian Wright landed his job with Seve Ballesteros mainly because the Spanish maestro had heard about Wright 's yardage books — at the time Wright was compiling a yardage book for almost every championship course in Europe — and his unerring accuracy and detail in planning out the route from tee to green . |
| 29 | Mrs Wright was snoring a bit . |
| 30 | And so , as the fighting at Verdun was reaching a climax of frightfulness , the continuance of both the war and the battle was assured by a firmness on the home fronts of the adversaries that would not be seen again . |