Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know that it is not as important as good health , a contented mind , or that gift that the poet Ruth Pitter said was the one she would choose , above all others , to bestow upon a child at birth — ‘ love in old age ’ . |
| 2 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 3 | On Tellenor , according to the Jura alien , they have mastered the technique of passing through solid objects — one of the things Mr Marr said was worst about the Tellenoreans was that you never quite knew when they were there . |
| 4 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 5 | In one of yesterday 's attack on blacks , a member of the white ultra-rightwing Wit Wolwe ( White Wolves ) shot a five-year-old black girl in the mining town of Nigel yesterday in what a Wit Wolwe spokesman said was a revenge attack for APLA 's killings of whites . |
| 6 | The very next thing Little Billy saw was a tiny face at the window . |
| 7 | ‘ The last show Fleetwood Mac did was Christine ( McVie , née Perfect ) 's farewell concert . |
| 8 | The dominant ruling idea of Renaissance England Tillyard found was the belief in a cosmic order which governed both human institutions and natural phenomena . |
| 9 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 10 | About to join a battle royal with Britain and Germany over his ambitious plans for a 30 per cent increase in the EC budget , the last thing Mr Delors wanted was more tales of bogus food exports . |
| 11 | But the finest import Mrs Gray made was the German bitch Int . |
| 12 | The depth of the resentment Mrs Thatcher aroused was occasioned by the challenge she represented . |
| 13 | The last thing Michael Harvey wanted was to be drawn into a personal discussion . |
| 14 | I do n't think that anyone would doubt that the treatment Dr Carrington received was extremely caring and humane ; but can we be sure that in other cases this will necessarily be so ? |
| 15 | The accepted rate at which New York life moved was at least three factors faster than in London . |
| 16 | This and every other manor acquisition Le Roux made was to go wrong , quickly , nastily , and , in the last case , quite spectacularly . |
| 17 | His experience forced Jones into committing what referee John Key felt was a penalty . |