Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 2 | Late last year I was getting terrible stomach pains . |
| 3 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 4 | And I just turned round cos I was making these trigger things , you know this cavity |
| 5 | Ali poses a question , his eyes closed , his lips parting as if her were sliding open manhole covers . |
| 6 | All these were metal aircraft , built of aluminium sheet to which were riveted L-shaped aluminium stringers . |
| 7 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 8 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 9 | At this point a servant appeared bearing a rough tray on which were set three horn beakers . |
| 10 | One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’ |
| 11 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |
| 12 | Under a new Constitution approved in a national referendum on Sept. 30 , 1987 [ see p. 35758 ] , ultimate authority now rests in theory with a 51-member National Assembly , elected for a five-year term ; executive authority rests with the President , elected by the National Assembly ( currently Ramsewak Shankar who , elected on Jan. 12 , 1988 , took office on Jan. 25 — see p. 35759 ) , as head of state , head of government , head of the armed forces , and Chair of the Council of State ( the successor of the Supreme Council ) and of the Security Council ( which was to assume all government functions in the event of " war , state of siege or exceptional circumstances to be determined by law " ) . |
| 13 | Despite his background , Henry switched codes and his talent shone through in the white SACU , which was fighting right wing politicians in a move towards multi-racial cricket . |
| 14 | At a press conference on Sept. 15 , however , Panic confirmed that China intended to supply oil to Belgrade which was suffering severe fuel shortages from UN sanctions . |
| 15 | Crone himself was visiting American toxicology laboratories last week observing methods for analysing toxins . |
| 16 | In the days when there was talk of comprehensive schools being ‘ grammar schools for all ’ , what hope was there for children who were experiencing significant learning difficulties ? |
| 17 | After their stumblings against Norwich and Blackburn this was the mean-hearted fired-up Gunners who were made 3-1 title favourites by the bookies . |
| 18 | It included CPCz chairman Ladislav Adamec and first secretary Vasil Mohorita ( who had been elected at the congress ) , and Frantisek Adamek , Jiri Machalik and Ondrej Saling , who were elected central committee secretaries . |
| 19 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 20 | Those , like Lashley , who were developing specialized test procedures for use with animals were either using them to explore general psychological capacities like ‘ intelligence ’ or were testing predictions from learning theories . |
| 21 | She was wearing long evening gloves , indeed seemed to be fully dressed for a ball . |
| 22 | She was wearing big maternity clothes and felt " dead weird " being with everyone else in school uniform . |
| 23 | She was wearing grey jogging bottoms , a lilac floral sweatshirt , white trainers and a long navy-blue overcoat when last seen in hospital . |
| 24 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 25 | She was wearing white cotton jeans , a peach-coloured T-shirt and white tennis shoes . |
| 26 | Chesara Akilles , who was to sire ten UK champions . |
| 27 | We were told that the WO was hoping such draconian action would not be necessary , although they were watching an appeal case in North Cornwall against the SoS for the Environment who was pursuing several revocation orders . |
| 28 | ‘ In the early days we were buying more paperback rights from other hardback publishers , because even five years ago there were more hardback publishers around that you could buy from . |
| 29 | The Minister must be aware that under the 1988 reform package we were assured that intervention stocks would disappear , but they are now at record levels , whether for skimmed milk , butter , beef or cereals . |
| 30 | ‘ We were given special safety rules — fire precautions — no smoking — all that . |