Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 2 | During the comprehensive rebuilt process , the aircraft 's original paint scheme was discovered on the airframe whilst paint stripping was taking place , along with signs of active service in the form of several small calibre bullet holes . |
| 3 | At the County Ground this morning John Gorman took over the crown as Swindon Town manager … down in London at Stamford Bridge Glenn Hoddle … the man whod abdicated was taking charge of his new kingdom Chelsea … |
| 4 | The thing I learnt was to turn conflict round so that it was n't a negative thing , it was a cool thing . ’ |
| 5 | the top of er there was somebody named was sold coal |
| 6 | It was something that you had to swallow whole , like a stone of uncomfortable size , and the act of swallowing was called Faith . |
| 7 | They only thing they could do was to go walk up to walk up a road to and contact the Evie bus but it did n't come down along for years and years . |
| 8 | What it did do was confer material benefits , which were desperately needed at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 9 | The one and only thing she could do and must do was to fetch help — swiftly . |
| 10 | What Dr Tolley was advocating was withdrawing membership of professional bodies from people who did not keep abreast . |
| 11 | The French army , which the Duke still thought was massing south of the border , was probably the finest instrument that Napoleon had ever commanded . |
| 12 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 13 | Gradually , a minor revolution in TV news programme presenting was taking place . |
| 14 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 15 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 16 | What she must teach herself to do was to stop caring , learn to stand up for herself . |
| 17 | By then all they wanted to do was set foot on dry land . |
| 18 | All I had to do was to gain confidence in that fact , and abracadabra I would become ‘ normal ’ . |
| 19 | While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch . |
| 20 | What I used to do was to get hold of them behind their hand . |
| 21 | But one thing I was determined to do was to get hold of a Supersight putter and see what its secret was . |
| 22 | All he had to do was provide music for the court balls . |
| 23 | To put the case far too bluntly , one might argue that a fifteenth-century scholar 's chief concern and the measure whereby he was judged was to achieve excellence in that is , knowledge or learning , through teaching and writing ; whereas a seventeenth-century scholar 's chief interest and the measuring rod of his success was the attainment of the high learned offices and the power , salary and perquisites that went with them . |
| 24 | One drawback with this increase of performance was that the amount of collectable coins being recovered was outstripping demand and the prices of certain coins started to fall rapidly . |
| 25 | Culley had no idea whether what he was saying was taking effect ; Sanchez 's face was turned to the light , his cheek deeply shadowed . |
| 26 | One of the worst things that could happen was getting water in your camera housing . |
| 27 | Erm well just as you come , that 's the best I felt all afternoon and I , all I was doing was playing peepo with them through me jumper , cos I games |
| 28 | The area Provenzano and McIntosh covered was called South Central . |
| 29 | She 'd finally realised that what she needed was to commit mind , body and soul into something challenging and exciting . |
| 30 | I would have thought myself that all it needed was going boomph in and turn it and get the other one in . |