Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 32 | In the corridor she had passed compartments full of young men playing cards , who looked up and appraised her face and figure with impersonal interest , and when she found another seat it was in a compartment with three other women travelling up to London on their own , all with suitcases and trim suits and carefully made-up faces . |
| 33 | In other words it was on the basis of substitution . |
| 34 | Hence it was that in many subjects he was behind the knowledge of the day . |
| 35 | Finniston also believes that choosing a good successor is an important duty of a chairman , but as chairman of a nationalised industry he was in no position to do so . |
| 36 | Last time we ‘ phoned Richard he was in the middle of roasting a duck for birthday meal with Roger and Katie ( his ‘ lodger ’ ) . |
| 37 | That was still the kind of work that I wanted to do , and if I thought very much a comprehensive schools it was in a spirit of mild disquiet . |
| 38 | AT 9 PM he was on the operating table . |
| 39 | Like there is today , I mean things are altered when you get a ship now , when you get the dredger what was in the East Anglia Daily Times er yesterday , where a ship open in half , so th they load it with a grab and that go to sea and ship open in half , drop it down so there 's no doors . |
| 40 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 41 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 42 | But it was n't until a fortnight after the accident , when I took it upon myself to see to the downstairs — particularly the kitchen which was in a state — ready for Auntie 's visit next day , that the riddle was solved . |
| 43 | on this in our January meeting , February meeting I 'm sorry , February meeting , are there any other comments members want to make now about proposals which were on the table , about the actual route line which was the one |
| 44 | Israel , he said , would be allowed to complete a pre-agreed number of houses which were in the process of construction in the occupied territories at the start of 1992 , in exchange for US$300 million in guarantees immediately and the remaining US$9,700 million staggered over six years . |
| 45 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 46 | In 1989 Indonesia and Malaysia accounted for almost three-quarters of world sales of tropical hardwood which were worth a total of US$7,000 million . |
| 47 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 48 | Aye , in the Washington I was in the Washington |
| 49 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 50 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 51 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 52 | A brief list of these phrases which were in the documents in 1121 will show their relevance : |
| 53 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 54 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 55 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 56 | Greenblatt 's Shakespearean Negotiations , for instance , is interested in the way the Elizabethan theatre produced texts which were in no respect outside other institutions of the time . |
| 57 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 58 | They drove at once to Baird 's home which was in the Dundonald suburb of Belfast . |
| 59 | Now , it was responding to what de Gaulle had called the solemn pact which was at the moment being sealed ‘ in the suffering of all and the blood of the soldiers ’ between France and the peoples of the Indochinese Union and to his belief that ‘ not for a single hour did France lose the hope and the will to recover free Indo-China ’ . |
| 60 | Ignoring the whole question of invisibility , which is particularly oppressive to working-class lesbians and gays , she nonetheless raised matters which were on the minds of many other heterosexual politicians . |