Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [noun] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 2 | For a brief moment there was recognition in his eyes and he reached for he hand , pulling back before the contact was made . |
| 3 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 4 | These he carried home , partly because the little room lacked storage space , partly to appease the secretive , magpie instinct which was part of his nature : he loved to keep , hide , obfuscate , cover his tracks ; he had fantasies in the watches of the night of other scholars stealing a march on him and publishing the definitive study of Walter Machin first ( though how that would be possible , in view of his privileged position , he would have been hard put to it to say ) . |
| 5 | Was it a Government commitment which was part of their manifesto ? |
| 6 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |
| 7 | There were still tears in her eyes , but for the first time that weekend there was colour in her cheeks as well . |
| 8 | Before the law received Royal Assent there was resistance to its implementation . |
| 9 | ‘ My lord , it is good to see you , ’ she told him , and this time there were tears in her eyes . |
| 10 | Most evenings after dinner there was music at his Headquarters in Stenay , with the Crown Prince himself sometimes playing the violin , at which he was a fair performer . |
| 11 | Instead of fire there was ice in her veins . |
| 12 | By which time they were miles inside our Front . ’ |