Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 2 | Dawley ( 1963 ) , later expanded and renamed Telford , situated between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury , was to accommodate pressure from the West Midlands , but it also served the purpose of tidying up the old mining and industrial area of Oakengates and Wellington . |
| 3 | But since the ECSC had been created , the faltering Fourth French Republic had collapsed in 1958 , and France was then governed by President de Gaulle , determined to raise the status of France as a state and nation : it was a foretaste of the French attitude that was to affect integration in the next decade . |
| 4 | I was doing a radio series called Holiday Hour , he was producing Pick Of The Week . |
| 5 | In 1981 Israeli aircraft nevertheless destroyed Iraq 's big Osirak nuclear reactor , near Baghdad , on the grounds that Iraq was producing material for an atomic bomb there . |
| 6 | The object was to monitor change in the services provided in Nottinghamshire and to evaluate the work of the CMHTs . |
| 7 | He still seemed so real , so close that she could feel his disapproval , and somehow she felt he was using will-power from a long way off . |
| 8 | He was using colour in a different way , almost as an independent element . |
| 9 | When he asked , then , ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ , he was using Ingeld as an example of the most extreme gap between good ‘ heroic ’ behaviour and good Christian behaviour ; Ingeld took unforgivingness as far as it could go . |
| 10 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 11 | Her mother was cooking breakfast in the kitchen , and her father was turning off the lantern . |
| 12 | In 1773 a London eccentric , James Cox , a goldsmith with premises off Fleet Street , was given permission by an Act of Parliament to disperse a collection of curiosities which formed a small museum he ran . |
| 13 | In 1947 he was given permission by the Fourth International to form an independent Labour Party entry group . |
| 14 | Later on , the squadron was given permission by the King to have its own squadron badge and each member was presented by the Commanding Officer with a personal copy of it . |
| 15 | The culture of the minorities of indigenous people that was given providence at the assembly . |
| 16 | When he was given work at a lathe that rounded and spiralled chairs ' legs he took no advice from the foreman , and instead watched the man next to him to study the working of the machine . |
| 17 | There is no specific reference to his serving Gloucester until after the duke 's accession ( when he became an esquire of the body ) , but his brother John was given land by the duke , which implies a close connection . |
| 18 | There is no specific reference to his serving Gloucester until after the duke 's accession ( when he became an esquire of the body ) , but his brother John was given land by the duke , which implies a close connection . |
| 19 | Janlori Goldman of the American Civil Liberties Union was given space in the New York Times to contest Sessions ' argument : |
| 20 | This claim was given credence by the DLP 's use in July of its legislative majority to enact 26 bills in defiance of normal legislative procedure . |
| 21 | Joseph , of Bow , east London , was given probation at the Old Bailey yesterday for attempted robbery . |
| 22 | Mr Lucas said Michael worked for Bond Corporation for around five years and was trusted so greatly he was given responsibility for the security of international VIPs who visited Western Australia during Bond 's America 's Cup defence three years ago . |
| 23 | Two years later , Brooke was given responsibility for the Kent coast from Dover to Whitstable , with the task of preventing any communication between the French and their English sympathizers . |
| 24 | A new Ministry of Commerce , Industry and Co-operatives led by Richard Kaijuka ( hitherto Minister of Energy ) was given responsibility for the development of import substitution and the promotion of exports . |
| 25 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 26 | The promotional side of the event this year was given edge by a visiting delegation of senior decision-makers , including energy ministers and heads of state oil companies , from nine countries where oil and gas activity is expanding , including Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan and Colombia where BPX has interests . |
| 27 | was given leave by an overwhelming majority of the House of Commons ( 228 votes to 17 ) to introduce a Bill which would have imposed a requirement of reasonableness where a mistaken belief in consent was alleged . |
| 28 | In November , Edward was given sight of a letter from Haushofer — he signed it ‘ A ’ — written to the duke . |
| 29 | Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own . |
| 30 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |