Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then followed a speech in her presence hinting that it was time Australia went it alone . |
| 2 | I was told there was an acting scholarship going and I was broke so I took an audition and by a marvellous chance , won the scholarship . |
| 3 | A bail hearing later heard that Atcheson carried a UDA card stating that he was entitled to collect for Loyalists Prisoners ' Aid . |
| 4 | As the boat rammed the steel plates , fabric ripping as it was dragged up against the rough barnacled side , he fired . |
| 5 | He has been a professional for almost two years and has a ring record of nine wins out of 10 contests , his lone defeat coming when he was out-pointed by Manchester 's Russell Davison for the Central Area title . |
| 6 | The police pointed out that I did n't have a tail light working as I was parking it . |
| 7 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 8 | The court refused to investigate the validity of the Act saying that it was unable to look beyond the parliamentary roll of statutes . |
| 9 | Under the 1984 Act , the PCA is empowered to : ( i ) choose , or veto the choice , of investigating officers , supervise their inquiries , and receive their final report ; ( ii ) monitor the speed and efficiency of the investigation and issue a statement to the Chief Constable saying whether it was satisfactorily carried out ; ( iii ) receive a Chief Constable 's decision on what action he intends to take as a result of an investigation and , if need be , overturn the decision ( either by preferring disciplinary charges or , if it believes an offence has been committed , referring the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions ) . |
| 10 | It was no longer a matter of one family or political grouping showing that it was domestically more powerful than any other . |
| 11 | ‘ No woman would ever want to walk down the aisle thinking that she was the bet in a silly game of golf . ’ |
| 12 | There was a sniff of disapproval signifying that it was out of court for a grown man to be still in his bedroom in mid-morning , and not at a place of work . |
| 13 | One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and , upon waking , was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man . |
| 14 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 15 | The two men eventually fell into conversation , the late-comer explaining that he was a director of the railway company and that he was interested in a new branch line that was to be opened . |
| 16 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 17 | He looked around for Reni 's wife — the mother of Neferukhebit wondering if she was the source of the girl 's character . |
| 18 | Lisa blinked up at him , for a moment wondering if he was joking , but there was not a shadow of humour in the dark eyes that met her own . |
| 19 | This is to prevent a copier claiming that he was the first to develop the topography in question . |
| 20 | The first name on the ‘ 92 list is that of a lady who insisted on coming out in her dressing-gown to rill the boot of the car with bags of glossy paperbacks one freezing February night , and then stood on her doorstep waving till I was out of sight . |
| 21 | At the international level , the US went into the crisis thinking that it was dealing with a second-division military power led by an incompetent petty dictator . |
| 22 | These corals look pretty disgusting when they shed mucus , and I ca n't be the only person ever to throw out a perfectly healthy specimen thinking that it was decomposing ! |
| 23 | And the engine man he was on his knees beside the engine the engine was sticking over and the officer was in charge watching when we was watching the boat coming towards the grating you know . |
| 24 | The 1977 Whitford Committee Report however , reviewing UK Copyright law , dismissed a proposal for droit de suite stating that it was not fair , logical or practical for such a concept to be introduced into the UK . |
| 25 | Chief Judge Patricia Wald , an appointee of President Jimmy Carter , dissenting , issued a statement after the appeal verdict stating that she was " satisfied that North received a fair trial " . |
| 26 | I said I would think about it , never for a minute believing that I was qualified to take a pupil . |
| 27 | But then you got three or four hundred a day coming and it was a little over-crowded . |
| 28 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 29 | I shall give the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) time to read the newspaper cutting that he was trying to wave at us to make his great point . |
| 30 | I thanked him for everything and left the orbit of his beaming smile knowing that I was included in the universality of stupid behaviour . |