Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's not a criticism of the project as such , it 's just that the sort of service that was intended which included the conversion of a building , did not check out that a building was available — there was no building . |
| 2 | Now Donald was bracing himself to take the weight of the heavier outer door and Donald McLaggan was helping him , easing it up off its hinges . |
| 3 | Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns . |
| 4 | After these discussions it was decided to drop the Wolf e Tone Societies tag , and an ad hoc body was formed which organised a seminar on civil rights on 25 November 1966 in Belfast . |
| 5 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 6 | The hindmost attendant was holding what looked like a large loaf of bread , and was using it to hit the minion in front , which was running almost doubled up , its little gloved hands held over its head , where the pursuing scullion was raining blows with the loaf . |
| 7 | Now all the pretty things sat around in the present , and all they did was make her regret the past . |
| 8 | A prophecy was given which pictured a smartly dressed young man in a zip-up leather jacket . |
| 9 | They came almost in ignorance of an often sublime short game — the big attraction was to see him smash a golf ball further than anyone else in the world and their adulation proved his undoing . |
| 10 | The aim of this part of the evaluation was to see what effects the performance of the front-end had on LA . |
| 11 | Maybe he was helping her prepare the meal for the husband and the child , stifling the urge to take her in his arms . |
| 12 | He said to Miriam , who was helping him dress the wounds of those hurt in the recent engagement : " The poor Collector has erysipelas . |
| 13 | He did not suspect whose money was helping him become a partner . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'll see I have n't let things slide , ’ he said to Carrie , when she was helping him put the shelves straight . |
| 15 | The official was helping us get a parking pass from the Campus Police . |
| 16 | Yeah it 's very prestigious actually erm er a local photographer who was helping us to run the er the photography workshop we call it , not a class because we we we do n't teach formally , we just work together and help each other out . |
| 17 | Luis was helping us clean the Plaster Room after a long session of plastering . |
| 18 | We should add that after the hearing was completed we received a letter from Mr. Persaud inviting us to reopen the hearing to allow him to address additional points to us which he had not mentioned at all in his opening submissions to us or in his reply . |
| 19 | And yet after that was completed I think the Water the Drinking Water Inspectorate condemned it as being one of the worst qualities of water in the country . |
| 20 | Then very shortly after her birth on New Year 's Day it was realised she had a heart problem . |
| 21 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 22 | Their other misfortune , or piece of carelessness , was to find themselves defending the changes in health and education , which began under Mrs Thatcher , at a time when their success or failure could not be judged . |
| 23 | Mighty was sacked last year for alleged gross misconduct after it was claimed he harassed a child and had inappropriate talks on sex with ex-residents . |
| 24 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 25 | When a subsequent judgment study ( Groeger & Chapman , in preparation b ) was designed which used the same films as Study 4 , the opportunity was taken to include questions about the amount of fixed and variable information in the stimuli . |
| 26 | In 1832 , an English couple , the Pattisons , married for just one month , were drowned in it ; according to the local sub-prefect 's report , because Mr Pattison was amusing himself sounding the depth of the water with a pole and fell overboard , dragging his bride in after him . |
| 27 | In June 1259 it was to Edward and two colleagues that the writ was addressed which ordered the pulling down of ‘ the old fabric of the church of Westminster … as far as the vestry which is by the king 's seat … and to have the same church rebuilt … in such a manner as the new fabric there requires ’ , an order which marked the beginning of work on the choir . |
| 28 | As soon as he realised what was happening he put the pressure on , and was closing with them when he saw another assault boat . |
| 29 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 30 | Mike 's boss , Max Smith , 53 , said : ‘ Even though he was trapped he finished the job . ’ |