Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
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 | Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | See Stewart v. Dunphy , 1980 S.L.T. ( Notes ) 93 in which it was decided such persons were guilty of an offence . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
13 | ‘ Was n't it you she was teasing that time , when the bees came out ? |
14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
15 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | What did she have to say when you told her you were taking another woman on this little ‘ business ’ trip ? ’ |
18 | it was him we were laughing this morning |
19 | er the air force , the German air force , aye , they had a go as well , they they they they they they they were providing all sorts of er er strafing and bombing , er comma . |
20 | Instinct told him he was passing some kind of test . |
21 | Meanwhile there was Keelan Lambert with whom he was developing some hind of tentative relationship . |
22 | I do n't remember what I was reading that Friday evening . |
23 | Carolyn found everything about Bryony so alien that she could not begin to guess what she was doing that Bryony did n't like . |
24 | Couriers are regularly in and out of Felcourt and one guy from DHL , Pete , plucked up the courage to ask Clare what she was doing that weekend . |
25 | ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something . |
26 | It was impossible to tell what he was doing this afternoon . |
27 | He knew what he was asking these people to do and he did not like it , but there was no other way . |