Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emma dropped down on to the couch again and Peggy beside her , and the first question Peggy asked was , ‘ Is this true ? ’ and Emma nodded , saying , ‘ Yes , yes , it 's true , every word . ’ |
| 2 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 3 | The Modigliani that Germaine described was the man that so many women admired : fascinating , intelligent , with beautiful manners . |
| 4 | The final , symbolic point on which Branson relented was in giving Oldfield an increased royalty on all future sales of Tubular Bells . |
| 5 | What Radio Bucharest announced was what people had to believe in public , in other words the formulas that they needed to repeat to prove their loyalty and conformity to the regime . |
| 6 | An important study Haworth made was on how the disaccharides — compounds , including table sugar , made up from two basic carbohydrate units — are linked together . |
| 7 | ‘ The man who had Carrie and Mikey kidnapped was trained at Balashikha . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But it was a good thing I was n't impatient , because the entertainment Linda and Emelda provided was far superior to anything I could have managed. ! |
| 9 | Another difference Walker found was that untried prisoners , who can be held for up to a year , are rarely allowed visits . |
| 10 | What Ceauşescu proposed was the ‘ expansion of the socialist farming system to encompass all agriculture … ’ |
| 11 | The first drawer Marie opened was the wrong one . |
| 12 | The earliest music Hewitt-Jones acknowledged was a cello sonata written in 1951 . |
| 13 | Fforde 's error ( and Eccleshall makes the same mistake ) is simply that the ‘ orthodoxy ’ which Dicey and his friends in the LPDL espoused was not Conservatism but classical mid-Victorian Liberalism . |
| 14 | His words must have issued straight through the mouth of the now defunct Repo Man , because the next thing Rex heard was a small green cry of , ‘ We 're rumbled , chief , ’ followed by much scrambling and scurrying and an increasingly distant voice going , ‘ Faster , chief . |
| 15 | One Street development Sue loved was working in Alf 's grocery shop with her long-term adversary , The Street 's pint-sized puritan Ivy Brennan , played by Sue 's great pal Lynne Perrie . |
| 16 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 17 | What Manville needed was an argument with gut-weight , real pull . |
| 18 | The archaic heritage which Freud postulated was innate in all of humanity , not just the Jews , and is of phylogenetic origin ; it is not the same as the ontogenetic conflicts of the individual , although it is analogous to such conflicts in the way its effects are to be grasped and understood . |
| 19 | The main point Lane and Roberts stressed was the dynamism of the strike itself . |
| 20 | In the present case the position when Mrs. Dennis died was that her husband had not yet been adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 21 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 22 | Matey watched her , dark head bent over her work , hands busy , having mastered the basics of the task with what Matey thought was surprising speed . |
| 23 | Er , it 's certainly what happened to me I must admit in fact it 's certainly been the pattern of my life and er I 'm not surprised what thought , Freud thought was a kind of typical er typical pattern . |
| 24 | The ‘ price ’ Walker meant was the cost of providing the right treatment . |
| 25 | What Ceauşescu managed was to marry the traditions of conspiracy and tight discipline , developed by Lenin and Stalin to bring the Communist Party to power , with the local legacy of Ottoman rule : the methods and the morals of cosa nostra . |
| 26 | What Thorfinn did was earn a breathing-space , and the right to lodge some sort of defence in the area . |
| 27 | The next thing Shiona did was phone Glasgow Central Station and book two sleepers on the overnight train that left just before midnight . |
| 28 | What Durkheim did was transform or recontextualise the official statistics , which he well knew were less than satisfactory in many respects , produced by officials for administrative purposes , and relate them to his theoretical concerns . |
| 29 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 30 | All Angus did was pull his robe tighter around him and slump in one of the high-backed chairs to glower at us . |