Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 2 | The Substitute had turned from the window and was watching the Captain curiously . |
| 3 | Titch had cut back the motor and was scanning the shoreline . |
| 4 | She wrote to the company at Stranraer and was sent the pack which listed 55 jobs from 34 general on-board and shore staff to three senior craftsmen , with wages ranging between £9,360 and £13,000 . |
| 5 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 6 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |
| 7 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 8 | Beneath the pad he found the small entry wound ; the larger exit hole had gone unnoticed beneath the man 's leg and was draining the lifeblood from him . |
| 9 | His Mum had finished sweeping and was wiping the cooker . |
| 10 | He was then 40 , and was sharing the mill at Snape with Benjamin Britten . |
| 11 | Moreover , I was ( and am ) conscious of the strengths of a grammar-school tradition , and was enjoying the work of building on these foundations within a relatively secure system . |
| 12 | Christina felt herself relaxing with Elaine , and was enjoying the company of another female for the first time in weeks . |
| 13 | He was blocking her exit now and was enjoying the fact that she knew it . |
| 14 | Smythe had dispensed with help and advice and was enjoying the writing , while the free speech folk had decided it was more appropriate for them to publish a cartoon balancing Oliver 's offensive one . |
| 15 | By Christmas 1942 I had settled down pretty well at B.P. I had made friends and was enjoying the camaraderie that was peculiar to wartime organisations . |
| 16 | The government 's policy goal was defined as being " to control government spending so that the tax burden does not subvert income-and job-creation , and to avoid using loans to finance consumption spending " ; a five-year programme of tax reform was under way and was to include the introduction of value added tax ( VAT ) in October 1990 . |
| 17 | In 1932 she became a nun and was given the name Maria ‘ in memory of St Maria of Egypt who lived a life of penitence in the desert ’ . |
| 18 | White or pink stonecrop ( Sedum anglicum ) was considered to be a delicacy and was given the name , the prince 's or lord 's food , also known as the English stonecrop . |
| 19 | The Berkshire boar attracted great attention , and was given the name Norman , after our bishop , Norman Tubbs . |
| 20 | I went to the British Association of Psychotherapists and was given the name of a woman who used the Kleinian method . |
| 21 | Andrew of Moray died of wounds received during the battle , but Wallace went on to be proclaimed Guardian of Scotland , and was given the accolade of knighthood by dignitaries still claiming , like himself , to represent the absent Balliol . |
| 22 | I introduced myself and was given the job of knitting a lot of maroon cardigans for stock . |
| 23 | The then Chairman of the Housing Committee was to be a leading member of ‘ Labour against Militant ’ and crucial decisions , including this one , were usually remitted from the full Housing Committee to a smaller Housing Committee Working Group which met privately and was given the task of disposing of 25 sites which had originally been reserved for council house or Housing Association use , but were to be sold , used for Partnership or HELP schemes , or used for equity shares . |
| 24 | In 1897 she was appointed ‘ principal lady inspector of factories ’ and was given the task of heading the newly constituted women 's branch . |
| 25 | I also asked for government accounts , and was given the summary of estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1991-2 . |
| 26 | The soldier stopped a motorist at a checkpoint in Cookstown , Co Tyrone , and was given the tin of Quality Street . |
| 27 | If Earl Eric was in England at this time , it may increase the likelihood that Swegen was also , for the two had collaborated in the defeat of Olaf Tryggvason , and Eric later fought for Cnut and was given the earldom of Northumbria . |
| 28 | The dealer asked the proprietor of the shop if he could take it to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin-Dahlem for an opinion and authentication , and was given the picture . |
| 29 | ‘ And I auditioned and was given the stage role , but I think Michael Crawford called them and said he wanted it , and they ousted me . |
| 30 | The ( communist ) MPRP had continued in government in Mongolia after the country 's first democratic election in 1990 [ see p. 37609-10 ] , and was providing the impetus towards political liberalization and the move to a market economy . |