Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For Jeanne Favret-Saada ( 1980 ) , who set out to study witchcraft in the French Bocage , the only means of moving in on the discourse she hoped to understand was to become part of it . |
| 32 | Cenwulf 's brother Cuthred was made sub-king of Kent no later than 801 , and they granted land there jointly and individually until Cuthred 's death ( 807 ) . |
| 33 | I 've been quite frightened by what is happening in many areas of conservation and environment problems , and I decided that the best , one of the best , courses that I could take was to incorporate conservation in my work . |
| 34 | All I could manage was to haunt Rocamar like a beast with no heart . ’ |
| 35 | Bicker was asking Finnan . |
| 36 | Anne felt a rush of affection for the wise old lady whom she felt was offering comfort and advice to her . |
| 37 | The texture of his voice was unfamiliar , and his face , when Eochaid glanced up , was drained with some sort of force which Eochaid suddenly saw was consuming anger . |
| 38 | I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible . |
| 39 | Perhaps all I did was to elevate trivia into a principle . |
| 40 | One of the last things Angela did was to have lunch with an old schoolfriend in the DTI who is responsible for the Huerter case , to make sure the DTI understood the impact of such assistance on Barton 's operations . ’ |
| 41 | With unsympathetic editors on the magazines he usually worked for , half of what he did was found fault with or refused . |
| 42 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 43 | Examples of the range covered was weed identification in grassland , and feeding and management of the in-lamb ewe . |
| 44 | The one thing I could never resolve was getting love and affection . |
| 45 | The mistake Claudia made was to become part of the total social fact herself . |
| 46 | If the property given was excluded property then although it would reduce the value of the estate of Mr X that gift is ignored and the reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X caused by the gift of excluded property is not taken into account . |
| 47 | For this report we excluded patients who had disease states that placed limitations on the act of defecation such as hypotonia , cerebral palsy , and severe mental retardation and patients who were less than 6 years at the time of follow up , because our intend was to evaluate outcome in school age children . |
| 48 | No , what he wanted was to destroy Tolonen . |
| 49 | Tweed was unable to argue with her — it was too public and the last thing he wanted was to draw attention to himself . |
| 50 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 51 | You thought my motives were suspect , that all I wanted was to get control of your practice and eventually edge you out altogether . |
| 52 | What Euripides wanted was to make tragedy reasonable . |
| 53 | All he wanted was to discuss business , and that was good . |
| 54 | ‘ One of the things I missed was having access to things like phones and being able to make contacts . ’ |