Example sentences of "[noun] it was [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 2 | The second largest backer , South Africa , said on Monday it was suspending aid and demanded the withdrawal of mercenaries . |
| 3 | The second largest backer , South Africa , said on Monday it was suspending aid and demanded the withdrawal of mercenaries . |
| 4 | The second largest backer , South Africa , said on Monday it was suspending aid and demanded the withdrawal of mercenaries . |
| 5 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 6 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |