Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 2 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 3 | I was learning to shut out the daily discomforts , however , either by looking around , or by playing mental games . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 5 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 6 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 7 | ‘ Because , ’ said Riley through gritted teeth , ‘ I was told to keep up the pressure on him . ’ |
| 8 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 9 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 10 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 11 | I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out |
| 12 | First thing next morning I was going to fire off a letter , I thought , when I heard something . |
| 13 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 14 | However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district . |
| 15 | Researchers from the Imperial College of Science , Technology and Medicine in London , and an independent company , Social and Community Planning Research , which were to have carried out the survey , had not been informed officially . |
| 16 | Indonesia , which was expected to take over the chair of the movement from Yugoslavia in September 1992 , was elected by the Larnaca meeting as de facto chair with immediate effect . |
| 17 | Sir Oswald Mosley formed the British Union of Fascists in October 1932 as a vehicle for his program which was designed to bring about the economic renaissance of Britain . |
| 18 | A few more attempts convinced him that nobody was going to put in an appearance . |
| 19 | Waving his men into a pincer formation , Mortimer surprised the small group of machete-wielding rebels who were trying to wear down the staff of the building . |
| 20 | He jetted out in his role as President of the Council of European Farm Ministers to join EC Agriculture Commission Ray MacSharry and US Agricultural Secretary Edward Madigan who were trying to button up a deal before the transition of the US Presidency . |
| 21 | A gang of youths threw stones and missiles at officers who were trying to break up the display . |
| 22 | In Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , 88 per cent of the 243 of ‘ The Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed did take some steps to aid new staff who were moving to take up an appointment . |
| 23 | Fires were started and there was looting after not guilty verdicts were pronounced on four white policemen who were filmed beating up a black man . |
| 24 | The Supreme Soviet also resolved that the President , Boris Yeltsin , should remove from office ministers who were failing to carry out the decisions of the republic 's legislative bodies . |
| 25 | Erm Richard you were trying to break up a big lump of snow yesterday were n't you ? |
| 26 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 27 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 28 | I agree with you that Mrs Thatcher is a representative of her class , first and foremost , but I think the way she was treated showed up a lot of rather unpleasant things about the er the political movements which opposed her . |
| 29 | She was determined to find out the truth and act on it . |
| 30 | But chance played an important part in this , placing Norah Brunt in the right place at the right time — she was asked to take over a retiring teacher 's movement class but refused to do so without a qualification . |