Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
| 2 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 4 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 5 | He told me the daughter was a bad lot though . |
| 6 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 7 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 8 | I told you the problem was a political one . ’ |
| 9 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 10 | I told him a leash was all I had . |
| 11 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 12 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 14 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 15 | I told him the captain was out walking , and the man waited , like a cat waiting for a mouse . |
| 16 | The expression on Hurley 's face when George told him the news was reward enough in itself , but there was an altogether different reaction from the DIA when Coleman reported in about El-Jorr and his key role as the DEA CI fronting for Eurame . |
| 17 | The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was . |
| 18 | Her employers told her the work was too stressful for someone in her condition . |
| 19 | He told her the gift was Belle Maman 's idea . |
| 20 | I told her the flat was in too disgusting a state for her to come and visit . |
| 21 | I told her the answer was the Sun . |
| 22 | A passing student doctor clipped and tied the umbilical cord for her , and told her the baby was a girl and just fine . |
| 23 | But his agent , Mr Tony Gordon , told us the visit was n't off — it had just been postponed . |
| 24 | They responded by giving the general area a few desultory squirts with their foam , but informed me the place was a total loss , and that I should be fully content with having got out of it alive . |
| 25 | Roirbak experienced a moment of panic , sure it was one of Penumbra 's staff , arrived too soon before he could work anything out , when Mellissa informed him the visitor was Leila Saatchi . |
| 26 | The horizon was still invisible , but above the line of mist that hid it the sky was clear , with the promise of a lovely evening . |
| 27 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 28 | When Marian uncovered it the wound was raw and open and the flesh around it inflamed . |
| 29 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 30 | The girl who taught us the song was called Isabel . |