Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er Granddad was on maintenance , of course , and I used to have to take his meals , so I used to go past the er picket , along with many other people who were busy coal out of the pit tip . |
| 2 | Er , the plaintiff 's case is that there was a duty to advise them of the opportunity er which arose , from the refusal of the landlords to grant a licence for assignment erm and that their failure er to er give that er advice was in breach of duty and my Lord on page eighty five of the pleadings summary er page eighty five my Lord again er in answer to the the request for what advise it is alleged the defendant should give the plaintiff on the twenty second of October nineteen ninety five , at the top of the page . |
| 3 | He really believed that he could do this through , through the form of the Blitzkrieg , that is through a limited war er which would secure military objectives and then produce a political peace and the model er for his er policy was in fact the eighteenth century where many wars occurred between European powers wa impo imperial wars and wars on , on t on er total Europe , but none of these wars resulted in the destruction of any state . |
| 4 | Well I remember being aboard the Brandon , because Uncle John came and stayed with us at the cliff and er , er father was at sea somewhere but he came and stayed with us and then he now went down into er to see his captain cos they were sailing on on the tide the next day . |
| 5 | But Italy 's defence was in chaos without him in the dismal 2–2 draw with Switzerland in their opening qualifying tie and he changed his mind yesterday under pressure from his wife and Italian federation president Antonio Matarrese . |
| 6 | The interior of the King 's saloon was of satinwood , inlaid with ivory , while the Queen 's day room was in white enamel , with delicate shades of pink and blue in the decorations . |
| 7 | Again , Jim Leighton 's judgement was at fault as the little Nantes midfielder managed to steer a shot between the keeper and his near post . |
| 8 | Viewed by many as a vain upstart , de Gaulle 's stand was in fact inspired not by ambition but by a deeply-held belief in the grandeur of France . |
| 9 | If the game was for high stakes , if Pound 's livelihood was at stake , the more reason for playing the game circumspectly . |
| 10 | Mme Guérigny once told me that Jean-Claude 's weakness was in part due to his exemplary sensitivity and in part to the damp in the cave , which had affected his lungs and his joints . |
| 11 | Chavez 's struggle was about dignity . |
| 12 | But just in case anyone was tempted his Bishop 's crook was on hand to hook em out . |
| 13 | Toohoolhoolzote and Hahtelekin also lay dead , but the sadness in Joseph 's heart was for Ollokot , who had tragically fallen in the thick of the early fighting . |
| 14 | Fedorov 's carriage was in view again , its outline jutting out from behind a heap of timber on the wharf . |
| 15 | SATURDAY 'S defeat was against South Bank , whose own future is gloomier still . |
| 16 | Orton 's intention was to outrage . |
| 17 | Masklin 's mind was in turmoil . |
| 18 | Eardwulf 's adultery was in fact potentially serious because he became estranged from Eanbald ( II ) , archbishop of York , who succeeded his namesake in 796 . |
| 19 | At present two fifths of the Warwick University Bookshop group 's turnover was in books , the rest in products that persuade the students to spend their money . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Nigel Colborn 's The Good Old-Fashioned Gardener ( Letts , April , £17.95 , 1 85238 376 3 ) is a more historically minded book , reminding us how much of the pre-20th-century gardener 's practice was in fact organic . |
| 21 | George O'Grady , the Tournament Director , pointed out that Mason 's action was in defiance of Rule 19 , which states that " the ball shall be struck at the hole with the head of the club and not pushed , scraped or spooned " , in short , not the Steve Davis style . |
| 22 | Alan 's car was in dock , so Willy , the only other car owner , agreed to drive . |
| 23 | Although 70% of the company 's revenue was from Unix in the last fiscal year , Progress defended its support of the AS/400 : IBM is refocusing it as an open platform and database server which means it can be combined with Unix , commented Wark . |
| 24 | Although his wrath frightened her and although she felt guilty , she would not be unnerved , not be fazed , not be pushed around — not when Thomas 's future was at stake . |
| 25 | Today 's stretch was from Sonning to Whitchurch , with stops at Caversham and Mapledurham Locks . |
| 26 | LEEL 's investment was for feasibility work into the inaugural event , and Standard Life has yet to extend its commitment beyond 1992 . |
| 27 | Suddenly all the political quarrels were forgotten and the French people decided that France 's honour was at stake and the two agents were not terrorists but national heroes . |
| 28 | Paul 's words and Paul 's example present us with a picture of a God who is the source of peace , and of a man who had learnt that God 's peace was on tap at all times . |
| 29 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 30 | But I say , the , I 'd heard such a lot of the Guild and the Guild 's influence was in Walsall Wood I think primarily , as I 'm always telling the women today , because they were so interested in the village and you got , they were local councillors , magistrates people you went to for advice . |