Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 2 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 3 | when I was advising people on unit trust things it was always the price of your units may rise and , as well as fall . |
| 4 | I was to see Loch of Strathbeg . |
| 5 | I was meeting Jenny for lunch . |
| 6 | I began to wonder if I was creating profiles for murder . |
| 7 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 8 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 9 | Ten minutes after we put the ‘ phone down , I was getting calls from carrier company executives from their car ‘ phones . |
| 10 | Well , towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool . |
| 11 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
| 12 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |
| 13 | If I was spending £500-ish on amplification , I 'd be looking for good second-hand gear , and there 's loads of that about . |
| 14 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 15 | He had impotency fears and I was having trouble in analysis . |
| 16 | I had to laugh though cos I was talking chap at work and they 'd sent round this erm this form right , to fill in about your opinion about the company and everything . |
| 17 | I was judging photographs in fact both |
| 18 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 19 | It appeared on the day that I was answering questions on transport on the floor of the House and there was a question on the future of railway services on the order paper . |
| 20 | Neither of us were attacked because of the Durances but because the local drug dealers knew I was making enquiries about trafficking and they thought you were working with me . |
| 21 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 22 | Even if the observation was not consciously made , Leonard recognised the great similarities which were taking place between music and poetry ( and in art and sculpture , too ) , which went under the name of neo-classicism in the former and modernism in the latter . |
| 23 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 24 | History layered upon history in almost geological strata , within the levels of which were preserved corpse upon corpse upon corpse — so that the upheaving rockface of history seemed a veritable conglomerate of compressed cadavers , human , abhuman , and alien , a cosmos-spanning coral reef composed of innumerable crushed skeletons … |
| 25 | The result was a new combination which was to put Arsenal on top of the football world — and to change the course of soccer history . |
| 26 | Kenneth Horne and the producer Jacques Brown , went with Williams to the South Coast to see the show , The Foll De Rolls — the whole purpose of which was to view Pertwee at work . |
| 27 | It was not until the next to last day of the visit that she finally formulated to herself her secret desire , which was to see Montmartre at night . |
| 28 | Care of mentally ill , mentally handicapped , elderly , and elderly mentally disabled people was grouped by the report under category A , which was given priority for health boards ' spending . |
| 29 | But the SSD has hit back , claiming it was the Appeal Court rather than the department which was placing children at risk . |
| 30 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |