Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [conj] was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 2 | There seemed little doubt that Alex was the murderer , but Charles felt somehow he owed it to his friend to isolate the element about the case that was worrying him . |
| 3 | When Eb told his son the truth , Tom went to Cyclops Wharf , determined to put a stop to the blackmail that was making his father 's life a misery . |
| 4 | That was precisely the worry that was bothering her so much . |
| 5 | This sheet slipped from the clip that was holding it . |
| 6 | Backache , despondent and everything else but the comfort of the chappie that was training me , he said , Come on lad , you 'll be alright . |
| 7 | She had just walked the course and was making her way to the weighing room before the first race when she heard the familiar Bronx accent behind her . |
| 8 | The wheels churned , the engine labouring , and slowly the rock that was blocking our way shifted . |
| 9 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 10 | It was n't the wind that was moving it . |
| 11 | He did n't turn his head to identify the car that was trailing it in case he was recognized . |
| 12 | General Lee had entered Maryland with 50,000 men , but the Brigade that was skirmishing its way towards Harper 's Ferry had left nothing behind but blackened camp-fires and crushed grasses , while the advance line of MacArthur 's Guard moved warily upstream in the late evening in pursuit . |
| 13 | He had decided to show himself to the crowd , and take the plunge into the humiliation that was awaiting him . |
| 14 | She had returned to the window and was watching me photograph the posters . |
| 15 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 16 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 17 | I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with . |
| 18 | the bloke that was organizing it , he was obviously a rip off |
| 19 | Half an hour later , Rosie was dreamily humming the same tune in the back of the taxi-cab that was taking her and Ernest home to Poplar ; they had slipped quietly away from the party , leaving the pub by the side door . |
| 20 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 21 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 22 | He was put into the picture and was asked his opinion . |
| 23 | Nothing mattered any more — except the truth that was breaking her heart . |
| 24 | It was n't the possibility of Louis learning of their presence in the town that was making her so nervous . |
| 25 | I thought a woman who was a little older and starting to feel a little out of it in terms of being attractive — had the sensuality but was losing it — might be more ambivalent about being raped . |
| 26 | But even during the Carboniferous the first true reptiles had evolved , and this was the group that was to make itself wholly independent of the water . |
| 27 | Clare began to feel a foolish kind of affection for the umbrella that was doing them both such sterling service . |
| 28 | Tallis remembered his fragmentary account of the battle of Bavduin , his incomplete memory of the legend that was ensnaring him . |
| 29 | He 'd put some more money in the meter and was warming himself by the newly-lit fire . |
| 30 | His wife had finished gathering the curd and was wiping her hands on her apron . |