Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] and [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are n't you going to claim that the spider must have been disturbed when the undergrowth was cleared and so it was all my fault ? ’ |
| 2 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 3 | You will have to explain exactly why the first report was useless , why the particular expert was chosen and why you think that a new expert would come up with a case-winning report . |
| 4 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 5 | Shortly after that her first child was born and then she had two miscarriages . |
| 6 | Water was added and once he was satisfied with the Nitrate level and pH , John introduced three or four small goldfish to help the biological process along . |
| 7 | The event was cancelled and now it seems we may never see what Daf Leyland had planned for the future . |
| 8 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 9 | She just pleaded with me to let her stay with me till the baby was born and then she would try and gather the courage to tell her family . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd go er before the baby was born and then you 'd look after the baby for the fi for a whole month . |
| 11 | But the garden was deserted and already he had disappeared from view . |
| 12 | Worked for the firm of with whom my grandfather was connected and also my uncle . |
| 13 | When he was murdered during the Wars of the Roses only the choir had been built ; later the ante-chapel was added and together they formed College Chapel . |
| 14 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 15 | Time was passing and now we were approaching the reservoirs , Fernilee and Err wood . |
| 16 | Both 5029 and 6024 needed water at Quainton during the day , further time was lost and so it was decided to cancel one round trip . |
| 17 | The Australians produced an impressive array of statistics to explain why the Pearl was underperforming and how it was losing market share . |