Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns . |
| 2 | The UK delegation was to comprise myself heading the delegation and two principal inspectors , Geoffrey Wilkinson and Peter Bardon , who subsequently became Chief and Deputy Chief Inspector respectively . |
| 3 | When their work was framed they preferred the frames to be ‘ en fuite ’ , or to project the canvas forward , rather than traditional frames which enclosed paintings and made them recede . |
| 4 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 5 | Even before the war ended an Education Act was passed which recognized the case for state support for free education up to the age of fourteen . |
| 6 | This is where my question was coming I ask the convenor why the committee failed to follow up their good work by not promoting the kidney donor cards through ministers to the congregation . |
| 7 | But a disciplinary hearing of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland was told he sold the product without a prescription . |
| 8 | Luis was helping us clean the Plaster Room after a long session of plastering . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 11 | When the milking was done they collected the eggs , warm from scattered nests in the barn and the stable block , or snugly hidden in hedges . |
| 12 | The Lord Mayor attended in state and a special service was intoned which included the Sanctus and a Te Deum . |
| 13 | By then Posi was asking me to explain the connection between Ardakkean phetam and the carrion bird of Old Earth called the vulture . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Eventually a compound was identified which met the specification . |
| 17 | An alternative method was devised which includes the advantages of the 26-way tree method , but reduces memory considerably ( see figure 3.9 ) . |
| 18 | My reason for writing was to let you know the most important thing I 've learned — never admit defeat ! |
| 19 | It should also be remembered that , until legislation was introduced which prohibited the use of most lead fishing weights , the number of swans dying from lead poisoning had reached critical proportions . |
| 20 | A problem-solving approach was employed which included the use of contracts to enable the couple to reciprocate efforts at improving their relationship . |
| 21 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 22 | From knowing the actual word that should have been written at a particular position in the input , a simple NAWK program was written which loaded the target word for each position into an associative array , then went through the Q100 lattice and printed out the recognition score assigned to each target word . |
| 23 | She also sensed that Silas was taking her to see the kiwi because it was something he himself enjoyed doing . |
| 24 | Once the letter was sent he regretted the remark — and he got a frosty reply from Sir Randolph . |
| 25 | An emergency resolution was passed which urged the government to target criminal justice resources into preventative programmes rather than just extending custody for young offenders . |
| 26 | But to do so in this way was to make her appear the villain of the piece . |
| 27 | A community psychiatry system was adopted which had the mental health centre at the middle . |
| 28 | Through the development of this research programme , a fuller list of tasks was defined which explained the social care planning process in context . |
| 29 | For this procedure a diagram was used which shows the relation between vitrinite reflectance and relative depth ( Fig. 2 ) and which is based on measurements of vitrinite reflectance in 45 deep boreholes of western Germany . |
| 30 | Mr Major , he said , was like a ‘ runaway train rushing headlong down the track ’ when the whole country was telling him to stop the Government 's ‘ privatisation madness ’ . |