Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Well , the River Police suggest that it was to weight the body enough to keep it under water , but not to sink it . |
| 2 | He did n't know that I was meaning the blood in his mouth and he said : ‘ You have bitten half your tongue off . ’ |
| 3 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether he was expecting the water to burst or what it was . |
| 5 | I was never able to establish whether she was telling the truth — virtually all the hijras I talked to shrouded the facts of their lives in a thick wrap of fantasies — but she was certainly from a middle-class background and spoke fluent English . |
| 6 | Nests I found when I was clearing the garden , put the little eggs in and they 'd all gone cold . |
| 7 | While this may seem a consolidation of his European realm and role , Charles could not have foreseen that he was to strengthen the future power of the papacy far more than that of his own lineage . |
| 8 | He realized that he was supporting the weaker side , and was against the transfer of power to ‘ mere financiers and political economists ’ . |
| 9 | Encouraged by the thought , Mungo realized that he was forgetting the point of the search . |
| 10 | He realized that he was following the pattern of the streets , moving into the poor area of World 's End . |
| 11 | ‘ When they realised that one was missing the others stopped as they were about to leave Hoxa Sound and waited for it to catch up , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 13 | A Chinese delegation , headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin , visited Brunei on April 10-13 , 1991 , after which the government announced that it was considering the matter of establishing diplomatic relations with China and wished to have economic and cultural exchanges . |
| 14 | On Nov. 25 the new coalition government announced that it was to close the prison in the north-western town of Eskisehir where human rights groups had alleged that torture of political prisoners took place . |
| 15 | On Feb. 16 , 1990 , the IMF announced that it was releasing the long delayed third tranche of 21,400,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=US$1.32182 as at Feb. 16 , 1990 ) of its 1986 three-year structural adjustment facility [ see pp. 35690 ; 36551 ] . |
| 16 | In 1986 , one of America 's largest and oldest enterprises announced that it was changing the way it assigned its personnel : the US Army discarded a system that assigned soldiers to their units individually in favor of a system that keeps teams of soldiers together for their entire tours of duty . |
| 17 | Appleton & Lange is part of the business , technical and professional group of Paramount Publishing , more familiar as Simon & Schuster until a few weeks ago , when Paramount Communications announced that it was changing the name of publishing group ( International News , 5th February ) . |
| 18 | THE Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department of Transport yesterday announced that it was investigating the accident at Edinburgh Airport on Thursday night when Gulzar Sattar , 32 , a technical supervisor , of Harvie Avenue , Newton Mearns , died . |
| 19 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 20 | On Nov. 8 the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) led by Prince Yormie Johnson announced that it was rejoining the interim government [ see p. 38379 for its withdrawal in August ] . |
| 21 | On March 15 the Interior Ministry announced that it was to drop the charges pending against about 6,000 people for illegal political activities during the regime of Gen. Hossain Mohammad Ershad . |
| 22 | Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make . |
| 23 | Helaf Orbis Ali resigned as Minister of Labour on Aug. 26 and announced that he was leaving the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) to join the United Opposition Front ( UOF ) — an umbrella group including members of the parliamentary opposition and the opposition guerrilla Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 24 | Bush also announced that he was ordering the immediate lifting of the alert status of all strategic bombers and had directed their weapons to be put in storage . |
| 25 | Wide-eyed and dazzled from his epiphany , Oldfield announced that he was to marry the daughter of his Exegesis instructor and Richard must be best man . |
| 26 | You are Friend — she studied the symbols of Friend 's identity with all that he meant to her of acceptance and caring , frightened that she was showing the nebulae of her longing for him too — but I can not read you perfectly . |
| 27 | He walked and walked , in fair and foul weather , pretending that he was training the young hounds to stay at heel ; and did so . |
| 28 | With an uncharacteristic spurt of mischief she added that she was considering the matter . |
| 29 | On 28 August he persuaded his father to visit Cobham Park in Kent and there stabbed him to death , believing that he was killing the devil . |
| 30 | The same chap also revealed that he was given the nickname Colonel because he was so self-important . ’ |