Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping . |
| 2 | Despite putting up Protestant Unionists against specific Unionists , Paisley was still willing to work with the Unionist Party provided the candidate was acceptable . |
| 3 | Lucy was only half listening to their conversation , the main thought in her own mind being that Stella would be home today . |
| 4 | It was Powell who took care of the necessary details that Branson was too impatient to deal with — accounting , credit controls , job descriptions , compliance with Acts . |
| 5 | Baldwin thought Astley was too far to go for weekends , and he was too poor at that stage to rent a Home Counties house . |
| 6 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 7 | Eva was too busy concentrating on the first foothold to wonder what she had done with it . |
| 8 | His laughter bred laughter in Rosen , and even Curtis was unusually breathy going about his business with the plates . |
| 9 | Gould was clearly reluctant to return to Tasmania so soon , when so many novelties awaited him in and beyond the cedar-brushes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 10 | One of Warner 's principal opponents was a dealer called Jay Hammond ; not least because Hammond was also happy to deal on the wrong side of the law . |
| 11 | If Barth was now able to say at least some of the things that Brunner also wished to say , he was doing so within his own perspective — and demonstrating at the same , time that that perspective was not as narrow and restricted as Brunner had imagined it must be . |
| 12 | At dinner on the night when her doll had been broken , however , Katherine was too upset to pretend to be invisible . |
| 13 | Similarly , in the spring of 1940 , he assured the French Head of State , Marshal Pétain , that Spain would remain neutral , while he also assured Ciano that although Spain was materially unable to participate in the war , he was not indifferent to it and believed in the victory of the Axis . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why Sami and Jamal were so happy to cooperate with the Americans was that Younis belonged to the Syrian-backed Amal militia , which had burned Jafaar and Hamadan poppy fields and destroyed their processing labs , and here was a chance for revenge . |
| 15 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 16 | Although the amount of employment created by Nissan was relatively small compared to the huge loss of manufacturing jobs caused by de-industrialisation in the North East , the investment was seen as a sign of hope , possibly leading to involvement by other Japanese companies . |
| 17 | Rory did , but Rory was immensely happy to wait for her , to go along with any whim . |
| 18 | She did not propose to gratify Gloria 's curiosity any further ; the memory of her meeting with Ernest was too precious to talk about — the most terrifying moment of her life , and the most wonderful . |
| 19 | Dwyer told The Scotsman that David Campese was most anxious to adjourn from the Italian leagues in order to play at Murrayfield , but it is uncertain whether he will be joined by Michael Lynagh , Tim Gavin and Willie Ofahengaue . |
| 20 | None of this caused any problem at all as it was something Sylvia was well able to do in reality . |
| 21 | Israel 's Finance Minister , Itzhak Moda'i , indicated on Feb. 24 that Israel was fully prepared to settle for less than the full US$10,000 million in loan guarantees . |
| 22 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 23 | Tweed was desperately anxious to get to Freiburg and it was late afternoon already . |
| 24 | Beresford was probably fortunate to stay on the field . |
| 25 | Despite these setbacks MI6 and the CIA were still anxious to tunnel into the Russian sector and Gehlen was keen to assist . |
| 26 | But Aurangzeb was rarely prepared to rely on military prowess alone . |
| 27 | David Parkin was obviously keen to preserve at work the image of a happy marriage despite , or perhaps because of , his affair with Nicola . |
| 28 | The House of Lords was clearly reluctant to clash with Parliament on a matter within the scope of Parliamentary Privilege ( see Chap . |
| 29 | Any differences with Britain were more likely to arise from Soviet conduct as a conventional state . |
| 30 | THREE Glasgow men who brought hashish worth £264,000 at street prices into Spain from Morocco were yesterday each jailed in Madrid for four years . |