Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 2 | The place took no bookings , and knew of no Mr Sixsmith , and was serving many midday breakfasts to swearing persons whose eyes bulged over mugs of flesh-coloured tea . |
| 3 | He recalled , ‘ I was under the pressure of being a family man with a daughter , and one day I accepted a job to act in a movie in the day-time and was writing another movie at night . |
| 4 | And , never having met such an abominable man , she actually heard herself telling him just how large the mortgage on the apartment was , and , while she was recovering from having actually told him something she regarded as no one 's business but her own , and was taking another breath to rage on , he got in first . |
| 5 | Lord Herbert Hervey was transferred shortly afterwards and was replaced some months later by Colonel Doughty-Wylie . |
| 6 | Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire . |
| 7 | She bought a secondhand car and was given this warranty with it . |
| 8 | Transferred to Fort Vancouver as an accountant , he rapidly improved its management and was given more responsibilities , including negotiating with the Russians to the north and the Mexicans in California . |
| 9 | But he survived and was given another jump . |
| 10 | He was altogether in a parlous state : the weather was bad , there was no water in the flat ; he did not care to go out at nights and was seeing fewer people . |
| 11 | Pc Dines tried to restrain Youngman and was struck several times about the head . |
| 12 | ‘ Thompson is a street fighter and was warned several times for outlaw punches , ’ says Jack . |
| 13 | He generated a lot of enthusiasm and was supported each day by his colleagues from the company who agreed that it was great fun and a huge success . |
| 14 | One , a little farther up the coast , is called ‘ Old Slains ’ and was built several centuries earlier : it is now ruined far beyond the one in which Boswell and Johnson stayed . |
| 15 | This was commissioned by the thrustful chatelain of Pau , Gaston Phoebus , from his distinguished military architect , Sicord de Lord at ; and was built some time in the 1370s . |
| 16 | This could prevent BIE members from embalming in France and was causing some concern . |
| 17 | In the latest outbreak of fighting in the capital , Kabul , which began on May 12th and was continuing this week , at least 600 people have died and more than 3,000 have been injured . |
| 18 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |
| 19 | Again he wrote and was told that mail at Middleton in Teesdale would be checked , but he heard nothing further . |
| 20 | Iro has been in poor form for the Sea Eagles and was told several weeks ago that he would have to take a pay cut to stay with the club . |
| 21 | The book sold well , and was republished many times in the following decades . |
| 22 | The column was a popular feature and was revived several times . |
| 23 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 24 | The Ridge was a favourite target for Stuka dive-bombers and was attacked several times each day . |
| 25 | Having spent almost all this money on adventurous travelling in South America , the United States , and Canada , he returned in 1908 and was rescued this time by his brother , who employed him as manager of his motor-car showroom in Brighton . |
| 26 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 27 | Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life . |
| 28 | Thiercelin had quite normal feelings where women were concerned , and was having some difficulty in controlling himself . |
| 29 | Born Yevonde Cumbers in Streatham Common , London , in 1893 , she had a fairly conventional start to her career , serving an apprenticeship to the society photographer Lallie Charles , but by the early Twenties had build up a substantial portrait practice of her own and was attracting much attention as an eloquent advocate of the cause of women 's photography . |
| 30 | He wrote that he was only slightly wounded in the left arm and leg , and was scribbling this note in case some officious nerk notified them . |