Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was seeing his picture of ‘ Mountain Silence ’ made me long to see the darksome mountain-girt lake in its weird lonesomeness with an intense longing . |
| 2 | The President in office was to suspend his membership of political parties , but the Constitution guaranteed freedom to political parties and public associations [ for clampdown on democratic parties see p. 39010 ] . |
| 3 | She took a deep breath , gathered herself , the room settled ; Giles was tucking his pile of books under his arm , picking up his briefcase . |
| 4 | In fact , it was not until April 1939 that the RCM was given its allocation of £200,000 . |
| 5 | I was nursing my mug of tea with both hands and taking short sips of the very hot liquid when a Commando arrived at the trench , stating that he had come to take Sid 's place on the Bren gun . |
| 6 | In the kitchen at the back of the house , Cleg was eating his breakfast of thick brown bread and great hunks of cheese . |
| 7 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 8 | The club was announcing its Brain of the Year for 1991 . |
| 9 | Thus , in 1921 , Bukharin was developing his theory of equilibrium both in the theoretical aspects and in its application to current questions . |
| 10 | A CAMBRIDGE student has been found electrocuted in his room , just days before he was to receive his Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award . |
| 11 | Jarvis thought he would enjoy hearing the sound of these trains while he was writing his history of the London Underground . |
| 12 | The aircraft was granted its Certificate of Airworthiness on August 21 . |
| 13 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 14 | I was wondering what kind of problems I 'd come up against , having heard how impossible he was to be directed . |
| 15 | Instead , she was wondering what kind of remedy Kate Adie used whenever she got a head-blocker , and whether she 'd ever had to read over livestock prices to what was probably a total early-morning audience of three men and a dog . |
| 16 | He also mentioned that an engineer from the Boeing company had arrived and was informing his company of the failure . |
| 17 | Like Lord 's , Old Trafford was celebrating its centenary of Test cricket , and , as before , Gordon Greenidge marked the occasion by scoring a double century . |
| 18 | If that did n't ensnare him , then the Militia might , as he grew older : there was a brief hiatus in the war with France from 1801 to 1803 , but by the following year Napoleon was massing his army of invasion on the cliffs at Boulogne . |
| 19 | Alison was wearing her dress of feathery blue cotton , bound in at the waist , her red hair was tousled , her freckled face not darkened , illuminated rather , by the sun , her pale skin delicately , milkily , opaque and her unpainted lips the faintest purest pink . |
| 20 | Three hours later , still waiting , Fox was rerunning her plan of action to check for alternatives . |
| 21 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 22 | He was holding his glass of port wine and swallowing hard . |
| 23 | Unable to police the world unaided , Britain was losing its freedom of manoeuvre — including its freedom to avoid involvement in future European wars . |
| 24 | Back home the NZRFU critics regarded the Vichy venture as another sign that the NZRFU was losing its control of its leading players . |
| 25 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 26 | Along the edge of the wood a blackbird was doing its job of warning all the wild life for a quarter of a mile around that their common enemy , man , was on the prowl . |
| 27 | Normally Desmond was pleased to hear that his brother was doing his share of what he privately called ‘ oldie watching ’ , but tonight he merely said ‘ Good ’ , with a preoccupied expression on his face , and made for the hall . |
| 28 | The next question under the Convention was to determine what kind of legal regime would be acceptable under Article 8(2) , assuming of course that it could meet the requirement of being ‘ in accordance with law ’ . |
| 29 | Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know . |
| 30 | His principal objective was to clear his name of the suspicion attached to it . |