Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
| 3 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 4 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 5 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 6 | They fasted for a further 2 hours , after which they were allowed normal food and fluid intake . |
| 7 | He was energetic in the struggle for Solidarity and finished his parliamentary career as a Solidarity-sponsored senator ( for his native Silesia ) in the newly re-established Senate to which he was elected last summer . |
| 8 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 9 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 10 | Reason told him that was all nonsense ; but reason was being steadily eroded by a terrible unnatural fear over which he was losing all control . |
| 11 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 12 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |
| 13 | Ltd. v. The Irish Land Commission ( Case 182/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 3677 , in which it was held that article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 14 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
| 15 | ‘ Was n't it you she was teasing that time , when the bees came out ? |
| 16 | Party of the week had to be the one which was held this week to launch NEW ORDER manager ROB GRETTON 's latest business venture . |
| 17 | I drew this item to the attention of congress last year since when my branch has lost thirty four members to new caps including one who was making good progress and had become a national delegate . |
| 18 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 19 | What the one we were using last night ? |
| 20 | ‘ When I saw Ivo with a parcel he was about to mail to his wife 's cousin in Karlovy Vary , I told him I was driving that way , and that I 'd drop it into the shop where Edita 's cousin works if he wished . ’ |
| 21 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
| 22 | Well would n't it be making a point if erm everybody who was owed this time took it regardless |
| 23 | she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please . |
| 24 | What did she have to say when you told her you were taking another woman on this little ‘ business ’ trip ? ’ |
| 25 | it was him we were laughing this morning |
| 26 | Instinct told him he was passing some kind of test . |
| 27 | Meanwhile there was Keelan Lambert with whom he was developing some hind of tentative relationship . |
| 28 | I warned 'em you was comin' round ternight an' not ter be late , ’ Nellie said . |
| 29 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
| 30 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |