Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Friends at work were telling me I was a lucky so-and-so when I won the trip — but their comments were unrepeatable when they found out I had won the car as well . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When Chris Nicholl re-signed me for Southampton last March for £600,000 , he told me I was a big part of his plans . |
| 3 | She told me I was the only person she could trust , though I often saw her around with other people , misplaced people , I suppose . |
| 4 | ‘ When I did get back she had a very strange and dangerous problem which she dumped in my lap , assured me I was the only man she could trust to handle it . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with . |
| 6 | And in fact er one My brother next to n to me I was the middle of them I was the youngest boy . |
| 7 | I it was an old man 's car . |
| 8 | Cos did n't I say to you it 's a hundred and nineteen quid and when I bought yours it was a hundred pound . |
| 9 | I was the head of the ‘ Linguistics Section ’ of the Department , and in 1974 this became the ‘ Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language ’ , of which I was the first head . |
| 10 | I enclose for your attention a copy of the recently issued opinion in the above case which was heard in the High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court on and in which you were the sentencing Judge/Sheriff . |
| 11 | It was difficult to know whether she had understood everything he had tried to explain to her about his being involved in a case in which she was the chief witness , about his career , and how he had a mother and sister to support . |
| 12 | At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner . |
| 13 | The people of Northern Ireland naturally and rightly reason that if what they have suffered at the hands of the southern-spawned IRA , they have suffered while a majority , how much greater would that persecution not be if they ever entered a state in which they were a perpetual minority . |
| 14 | The great task , for someone such as Cis , was to make of her own house — a three-bedroom semi-detached in which they were the first occupiers — a place of comfort and gleaming triumph against the odds . |
| 15 | In the ten ‘ three-way ’ marginals — in which they were the main challengers just ahead of Labour — Labour won one ( Cambridge ) and pushed them into third place in another seven . |
| 16 | Likewise , though a loyal supporter of the societies of which he was a valued member , he managed to remain detached from any of the inevitable petty politics . |
| 17 | Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller . |
| 18 | Lawrence is now branch manager of Newcastle , prior to which he was a successful sales manager with the Healthcare division . |
| 19 | He won the Open in 1887 and 1889 and designed the old Sunningdale course ( opened in 1901 ) and the Huntercombe course , in which he was a major shareholder . |
| 20 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 21 | In the first round of voting on Jan. 12 Zhelev , backed by the ruling Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) of which he was a former chairman , had unexpectedly failed to win the necessary overall majority , but obtained 45 per cent as against 30 per cent for Valkanov and 17 per cent for the third-placed Georgi Ganchev , a former fencing champion who stood as an independent , in a field of 22 candidates . |
| 22 | Lowther was an active parliamentarian , serving on 141 committees during his first decade , during which he was a reliable supporter of the government and received a grant of lands between the tides at St Bees–Whitehaven from Charles II which proved of considerable importance in his local battles . |
| 23 | This magnificent , and still valuable , work earned him in 1920 the Lyell medal of the Geological Society of London ( of which he was a senior fellow and later vice-president ) and an honorary doctorate ( 1919 ) from the University of Wales . |
| 24 | Most evenings after dinner there was music at his Headquarters in Stenay , with the Crown Prince himself sometimes playing the violin , at which he was a fair performer . |
| 25 | My clients were relieved , but the brothers , George and Mike Stevens , were not , and had made their feelings plain to Andrew Buccleuth in language that he did not normally hear outside the fringe theatre , of which he was a generous patron . |
| 26 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous communist leadership of which he was a vital part . |
| 27 | Through the pages of the Edinburgh Review of which he was a founding figure , from the pulpit , in lectures and pamphlets , Smith challenged political , social , and religious cant . |
| 28 | Best known for his column , in which he was an early champion of green politics . |
| 29 | The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder . |
| 30 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |