Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In London , even if a case were delayed because a witness had not presented himself or the judge was ill , there was always plenty of work waiting for her in chambers . |
| 2 | The composer sang the principal part himself and the accompaniment was played on a chitarrone . |
| 3 | By the time the summer was over , the predictions that Syria was about to release all the hostages had come to nothing and the issue was dead again . |
| 4 | Between me and the wall was an empty place on the window-seat . |
| 5 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 6 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 7 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 8 | One was two years older than me and the other was five years younger than me . |
| 9 | He was facing the man in the lit room with only thin wood and a lot of glass between them and the man was still moving , the blue-black automatic squat and ugly in his fist . |
| 10 | The Washington police fired tear gas at them and the gas was blown at once across the White House garden . |
| 11 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 12 | Michael Hickes , Burghley 's Secretary , was in no way diffident about taking presents , for men in his position could not have lived without them and the practice was part of conventional behaviour . |
| 13 | The police came and dealt with them and the arrest was made . |
| 14 | Rather ingenuously it appears that , with the liberation of Paris , the French in Vietnam asked for Japanese permission to celebrate the event ; and it must have been obvious to the Japanese , too , that the uneasy but de facto alignment between them and the French was liable to break down sooner or later . |
| 15 | The kettle on the stove sang to itself and the sun was sinking in the west . |
| 16 | From 19 BC none but the emperor was permitted to enjoy a triumph , and victorious generals had to be content with the nominal honours of the ornamenta triumphalia . |
| 17 | Cold winds knifed at them but the baby was snug in its portable bed , the blue and pink rabbits bobbling between its face and the real world . |
| 18 | However , the public on Møn was a small one and the park was visited primarily by public servants from other parts of Denmark , whose job it was to plant out public places — and also by visitors to the Villa and The Tamarisks . |
| 19 | And we 'll sort out last week 's postal competition so do n't ring in for this one and the question was , What 's this got to do with a company ? |
| 20 | I always really wanted one but the trouble was they were 70 quid a pop , which I certainly could n't afford on a Saturday lad 's money — even the Saturday lad 's money that Malcolm paid . |
| 21 | The respondent was informed in the early hours of 17 August 1987 that complaint had been made against him and a report was made to New Scotland Yard . |
| 22 | His delivery was extraordinarily good and , though he spoke for an hour and a half I should think , his voice never failed him and every word was clear — and bold . |
| 23 | But the noise of him and the flapping was good enough sign too . |
| 24 | He was opposed , to shinty and the young 's enjoyment in general , but they paid no attention to him and the day was spent in the usual lively manner accompanied by bagpipe music and dancing in the open air . " |
| 25 | He was opposed , to shinty and the young 's enjoyment in general , but they paid no attention to him and the day was spent in the usual lively manner accompanied by bagpipe music and dancing in the open air . " |
| 26 | Unfortunately , when one of the climbers became stuck in the ‘ MOUNTAINEERING ’ section the rest had to rescue him and the search was abandoned . |
| 27 | Eventually even Gorbad had to give up , Altdorf had defeated him and the Waaagh was over . |
| 28 | It was being driven by a very po-faced Englishman with another of the same ilk beside him and the car was spotlessly clean . |
| 29 | Now he did look at her and the look was almost forlorn . |
| 30 | Then he looked down at her and the similarity was gone . |