Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [conj] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and took up a career as a TV commentator with Murray Walker and was recently reported to have cash problems . |
| 2 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 3 | This last was addressed to Jamie , who was peering round Miss Williams and was openly pleased to see him . |
| 4 | Er thanks Tom that was really quite dynamic and breathtaking and I think you 'll all agree . |
| 5 | He was also the uncle of Banda 's confidante and Official Hostess Cecilia Kadzamira and was widely regarded as the President 's heir-apparent . |
| 6 | He had worked in South America and was now exploring the Malay archipelago ( modern Indonesia ) . |
| 7 | He was an elderly Scotsman , a man of the north , who had worked all his life in South London and was now near to retirement ; he had known Phyllis Henley for almost all of his career . |
| 8 | Most of my friends stayed in colleges , but I stayed with an aunt in Victoria Road and was very much warmer in consequence . |
| 9 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
| 10 | With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s . |
| 11 | The headmaster , who had just finished dispensing multiracial condescension to Mr Patel and was now turning gratefully to Dr and Mrs Frome , gazed with ill-disguised apprehension in the direction of Mr McWhirter . |
| 12 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 13 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 14 | He certainly did n't put all the radioastronomers in the north : between 1946 and 1960 , which Robertson calls ‘ the golden age ’ of Australian radioastronomy , the group at the Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney was larger than any in the United Kingdom , the Netherlands or the United States and was remarkably productive . |
| 15 | When last heard of — in the early Seventies — he had returned to the United States and was apparently working in a fast food restaurant . |
| 16 | He therefore received a rather cool reception from Oliver Cromwell and was never once invited to join the army council meetings . |
| 17 | Numerous operations were performed , until , as Charlie says , ‘ I was eventually shipped back to the States on the Queen Mary and was so happy to see the Statue of Liberty again . |
| 18 | This led to the resignation from the League of J. T. Murphy and was clearly opposite to the policy of the Labour Party . |
| 19 | Long after Branson had moved his office to the houseboat Duende and was seldom to be seen by most of the Virgin staff ; long after he had ceased to know everyone by name , or even by sight , Branson himself would continue to refer to a special Virgin ‘ atmosphere ’ , barely perceivable to the outside world . |
| 20 | In particular they want to speak to anyone who saw a black man , aged about 24 , who was at the Social Services office in Calthorpe Street and was also seen later at Banbury and Oxford train stations . |
| 21 | The Palladium opened in 1940 to the mellow trombone of Tommy Dorsey and was once home to the big band sounds of the Lawrence Welk Show , was host to five presidents and featured entertainment from ballroom dancing to rap music . |
| 22 | It was ideal and saved people walking up the bank with heavy shopping , also it was handy for the post office ( which by the way , we have n't one on Albert Hill ) as it stopped at the end of Albert Road and was quite near to the post office on North Road and everyone welcomed that . |
| 23 | DesignWorks is/was the first tentative step into the Windows environment for Cambridgeshire firm GST and was reasonably well received by reviewers , but with one or two caveats . |
| 24 | I arranged to meet club members on Oxford Crag and was immediately intrigued . |
| 25 | So Ron and I went down to Broadlands , the country house on the Test at Romsey which had once belonged to Lord Palmerston and was later left to Edwina Mountbatten , the admiral 's wife . |
| 26 | In 1972 , Henley formed a special link with Brunel , the University of West London and was thus able to offer postgraduate degrees validated by the University . |
| 27 | In the southern half of the country , the Labour party won only three seats outside of Greater London and was largely displaced as the main challenger to the Conservatives by the Liberal/SDP Alliance ( see Table 5.7 ) . |
| 28 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 29 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 30 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |