Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 2 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 3 | And while you were , while you were using a film which you had in anyway for the next day 's performance and putting in that slot |
| 4 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 5 | He also commissions M. Bijou de Millecolonnes , who despises the ancients , and whose ‘ lightness , gaiety , and originality ’ are the antipodes of the ‘ solidity , solemnity and correctness ’ of Sir Carte Blanche , to build in a ‘ wild sequestered spot ’ in Regent 's Park a pavilion reminiscent of Nash 's at Brighton , which gives rise to a rumour ‘ that the Zoological Society intended to keep a Bengal tiger au naturel , and that they were contriving a residence which would amply compensate him for his native jungle ’ . |
| 6 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrats were supporting a Government which they had pledged to defeat . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrats were supporting a Government which they claim to want defeated . |
| 9 | if you were having a girl it was mostly in the front , but er that was n't true really |
| 10 | and if you were having a boy they used to say you would carry the baby all round sort of thing |
| 11 | ‘ Not to the same degree , of course , but on Sunday there was the same feeling — as if we were continuing a conversation we were having yesterday , as if nothing had really changed . |
| 12 | The mountain troop of the 4th Squadron were devising a crib which involved a lifesize figure of the baby Jesus abseiling down a mockup of a cliff face towards a rock grotto containing an edelweiss , the symbolic flower of the German Wehrmacht mountain troops . |
| 13 | They were reading a notice which proclaimed the names of the newly elected Mayor and the officials appointed by him : |
| 14 | ‘ Moreover , on general principles , it would in my judgment be a plain interference with or usurpation of an owner 's rights by the customer if he were to remove a label which the owner had placed on goods or put another label on . |
| 15 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We were leaving a bar which had ripped us off and Simon started giggling and piling up pot plants from the window boxes all over our car . |
| 17 | If you were planning a menu which would you consider first do you think ? |
| 18 | As is customary , they were paid a fee which committed them to producing pictures to that value for the Imperial War Museum . |
| 19 | As is customary , they were paid a fee which committed them to producing pictures to that value for the Imperial War Museum . |
| 20 | To make matters worse the angler was using a rig he had bought from his local tackle shop . |
| 21 | This was briefly halted after it was designated a Grade I listed building by the Scottish secretary Ian Lang but recommenced after the local council declared much of the structure dangerous . |
| 22 | Sigsworth was given a drug which would normally induce prolonged unconsciousness but it had no effect on him . |
| 23 | Environmentalists have supported the miners against Pittston strip-mining and long-wall techniques , and I was given a badge which proclaimed ‘ I 'm Pro-Union and Pro-Choice ’ , linking the strike with the most inflammable issue in US politics today , abortion rights . |
| 24 | When he was given a chance he enjoyed it as much as anyone else . |
| 25 | However , the court reached a different conclusion in Cavendish-Woodhouse v Manley ( 1984 ) TLR 86 where a consumer who bought furniture was given a document which stated that the furniture was " bought as seen " . |
| 26 | Someone else brought in toys , and when the music started Anna was given a horn which did n't make any sound . |
| 27 | Her game was to pretend a confidence she did not feel . |
| 28 | Each neighbourhood was assigned a planner who was responsible for notifying neighbourhood residents of planning decisions which were likely to affect them and for channelling requests for action through the appropriate city departments . |
| 29 | Each member was assigned a task which would draw on their skills . |
| 30 | But the best thing was gaining a pen-pal who writes to me in Chinese . |