Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual , Picture Power was at the Grove to bring readers the action from the ‘ Tele-tots ’ gala . |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody named Gunner was among the survivors . ’ |
| 3 | The final job that needed doing was for the trip to be advertised and participants sought . |
| 4 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |
| 5 | ‘ We knew marriage was on the cards . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He accepts that what took place was against the will of the girl and that he must take the consequences . ’ |
| 7 | Holly bent to the floor , picked up the knife , admired the workmanship of the weapon , reversed it so that the string whipped handle was towards the man , passed it back to him . |
| 8 | Mr. Major said the figures proved recovery was on the way . |
| 9 | The emergency button to summon help was by the desk , under the ledge . |
| 10 | The last time a monarch refused assent was during the reign of Queen Anne ( 1702-1714 ) . |
| 11 | Where Keynes and Pigou parted company was in the mechanism through which the requisite decrease in real wages would occur . |