Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] was [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told everyone I was going for a merit , but it made me feel really good when I got it ! |
| 2 | When you last saw me I was living in a room |
| 3 | He told me I was turning into a jealous old queen but before he slammed the phone down he agreed not to tell Mother about the death . |
| 4 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 5 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 6 | Zoe Hartley , 13 , of Send , near Ripley , Surrey , died yesterday after being thrown from a motorcycle on which she was riding as a pillion passenger near her home . |
| 7 | He became very confused and it was suggested that the squadron would like something which she was wearing at the time . |
| 8 | This month the play in which she was appearing at the Criterion Theatre , Making It Better , ended its run early . |
| 9 | Then , course then they used to hav when the man stood in green , I knew a fella named which we was talking about a little while ago and he had a pair of lady 's stockings which he used to put over his shoes to stop the grain going in and some of these people in the and , they used to have erm , like er string soles with like calico boots and they used to tie them on tight . |
| 10 | He told himself he was behaving like a fool , that his suspicions were groundless , but he did n't believe what he told himself any more . |
| 11 | The driver of the dust-cart , the driver of the bus , and the husband were all held to have been negligent , the husband because of the dangerous manner in which he was riding on the dust-cart . |
| 12 | Bath Street , which he was building in the old centre after 1791 , is probably his finest work , with sweeping quadrant arms and a covered promenade of Ionic columns . |
| 13 | He tries to remember accurately Flaubert , which he was combing on the plane : ‘ Their indifferent glances told him of passion dulled by daily satisfaction . ’ |
| 14 | He was delayed by an accident to the Imperial Airways ' HP.42 on which he was flying on the Kisumu-Cairo-Karachi sector . |
| 15 | Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus . |
| 16 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
| 17 | The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last . |
| 18 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 19 | Indeed , Picasso 's admiration for various complementary , at times even formally opposed categories of tribal sculpture is indicative of the instinctive pull which he was feeling between an increased interest in solid , sculptural forms and an awareness of the need to depict them in a manner that did not violate the flat , two-dimensional plane on which he was working . |
| 20 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 21 | He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed . |
| 22 | It was this constant strain of pessimism , both about his own writing and about the civilization of which he was a part , that Wyndham Lewis tried to evoke in a portrait of Eliot which he was painting in the spring of 1949 " The body slightly tilted , " he explained , " … in resigned anticipation of the worst . |
| 23 | But Alex dismisses hippy tags as totally misguided , claiming he only ever enjoyed one Steve Hillage album — ‘ Rainbow Dome Music ’ — which he was spinning in a club when Hillage himself came over and made contact . |
| 24 | But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly . |
| 25 | PW also had to hand back $500,000 of the client 's money , which it was holding as a contingency against liability . |
| 26 | She cabled her parents and told them she was going to the Salvation Army College in London . |
| 27 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 28 | there was one in the paper , there was a picture of it in the paper , and it , I 'm sure , it did say the old gate bridge , I 'm sure and it was nearly owt it was going over the bridge |
| 29 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |