Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 2 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 3 | We ran across David Crosby when we were playing in LA , the same night we met Joan Baez and Jackson Browne . |
| 4 | As from today it 's hello , good evening and welcome to Sir David Frost after he was awarded a knighthood . |
| 5 | Those who answered his call became known as the Reaver Knights because they were forced to live off the land as they galloped back and forth across Ulthuan . |
| 6 | United 's best chance of the half came just a minute later ; Martin Foyle ran on to the perfect Paul Simpson through ball , he actually got past goal keeper Andy Gosney but he was forced just a little bit wide . |
| 7 | Jenny had digs on the Iffley Road and I was going there to see her , to tell her , to break it to her , to break her fragile , trusting heart . |
| 8 | The 46/47 season saw the forced retirement of Ken Mentle after he was struck on the knee by a lettuce thrown from a nearby allotment . |
| 9 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
| 10 | Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales . |
| 11 | There followed a scene which so distressed Mrs. Aboody that she was reduced to tears . |
| 12 | Life has changed for Loris Capirossi since he was crowned 125 world champion last September . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you mean that you started writing Jane Eyre while I was lying in that dark room in Manchester ? ’ |
| 14 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 15 | I do n't know how many of you have ever been to get tickets at Elland Road but you were advised to take a flask and sandwiches and |
| 16 | ‘ Sergeant Morris and I were trying to stop the bleeding when you came . ’ |
| 17 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 18 | He recalled that it was on tour in South Africa that they were christened the Pumas . |
| 19 | Asif Mujtaba had made his first Test half-century and seemed quite settled , while England will have felt apprehensive about Salim Malik after he was spared at 22 by Gooch at slip , low and to his left , off Lewis . |
| 20 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 21 | ( John turned to Dr Skynner when he was asked to act in a frank nude scene with Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda . |
| 22 | Aunt Bedelia and I were trying to watch Brookside , but it was an impossible mix , like tripe and onions with Bolognese sauce , so when Otley went down to the pub to see the lads I strolled down to the villa . |
| 23 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 24 | The multi-millionaire actor has maintained a round-the-clock vigil at the bedside of TV reporter Maria Shriver since she was admitted to hospital with a soaring temperature . |
| 25 | The multi-millionaire actor has maintained a round-the-clock vigil at the bedside of TV reporter Maria Shriver since she was admitted to hospital with a soaring temperature . |
| 26 | This road , known as the Coal Road because it was used for the transport of coal from long-abandoned pits , discloses an aerial view of the hidden valley of Grisedale across the gulf of Garsdale . |
| 27 | Garrington admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Ian Dixon and he was fined £50 . |
| 28 | A spokesman said Mr Wood had opened negotiations with Standard Chartered , a London-based overseas bank , as far back as January , but only told Mr Buxton that he was leaving last Monday . |
| 29 | Then he 'd tell Phil Simpkin that he was having trouble with one of the staff , and she 'd be out on her wiggly bottom before she knew what hit her . |
| 30 | All nursing and medical procedures were explained to Mr Reynolds and he was asked his preferences wherever possible . |