Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 2 | Of course , I was insulated from the more unpleasant aspects of city life , wallowing in the luxury of the Savoy , being waited on hand and foot . |
| 3 | Secondly , I was struck by the unexpectedly high use of nonsense words , used in order to signal a breakdown in the speaker 's ongoing mental processing — when a word has become completely unretrievable . |
| 4 | Since I was living with the most out gay man I know , I was n't short of an opinion on anything to do with anything in faggotdom , or at least the social side of it . |
| 5 | My employment with CBC began at the salary of $150. per month which was very acceptable , and I was assigned to the newly created post as Talks Producer . |
| 6 | I was fascinated by the nearly naked figures of ladies in different positions that were painted on it . |
| 7 | I was issued after the immediately after the briefing I was issued with two weapons a revolver and a shot gun . |
| 8 | Chiswick experienced some changes in 1962 , one of which was the withdrawal of all the trolley-buses , which were replaced by the very popular Routemaster buses . |
| 9 | I visited Blamey 's house and studio in Hampstead and admired his highly disciplined and organised working methods which were reflected in the immaculately tidy house with its magnificent north-facing studio , built as a rear extension over two floors . |
| 10 | The earliest part of the castle is a gate-house tower , which was built in the earlier 15th century and absorbed into a rectangular three-storeyed tower house in the late 15th or early 16th century . |
| 11 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 12 | Fishing , which centuries of experience had made into a great food-supplying industry , and which was blessed by the exceptionally rich fishing grounds of the North Sea and the North Atlantic , also employed ships and provided a livelihood for thousands of men . |
| 13 | The Tramroad Company was acquired by Blackpool under the terms of the Blackpool Improvement Act of 1919 , which was opposed by the then — Fleetwood U.D.C. Fleetwood resented Blackpool 's ownership of the track within its area , and succeeded in winning the right to purchase the tramway after twenty-one years . |
| 14 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 15 | An alternative proposal , support for which was centred around the strongly " pro-whaling " members — Norway , Iceland and Japan — that commercial whaling be allowed to resume immediately on all stocks which had recovered to 30 per cent of estimated pre-hunting levels , was rejected by 19 votes to seven . |
| 16 | The sharp nose and thin lips gave his angular face a harshness which was softened by the neatly trimmed black moustache he had worn since his early twenties . |
| 17 | In the full sense of the word , it is arguable that nobody was governed before the later nineteenth century ; it would certainly be foolish to maintain that either royal or princely government in the twelfth century operated according to fixed rules or without intermission or over all the inhabitants of a defined area . |
| 18 | And standing on the pinnacle of course of this process of evolution erm er who were living in the most advanced societies and so on . |
| 19 | Naturally , some of these investors , particularly those who were speculating in the more unpredictable ventures , lost money , but by and large the European and American ‘ coupon clippers ’ as they were sometimes called , did very well out of their overseas investments . |
| 20 | Many times , in the middle of the night when she could not sleep , she was faced with the slightly guilty realization that she was behaving rather badly , but in the daytime it did n't seem to matter . |
| 21 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |
| 22 | ‘ She was fighting from the very first minute and she is still fighting . ’ |
| 23 | She was keeping to the more furtive by-ways of the city and away from loyal troops . |
| 24 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 25 | When , a little later on , as she was sitting beside the now sleeping child , she heard Liza come into the house , Harriet did not go downstairs but waited until her daughter stood in the doorway of the bedroom , wild-eyed and trembling . |
| 26 | When he took over in October 1964 , he enjoyed two other advantages : his majority of four ensured that the fractious Parliamentary Labour Party would have to behave ; and , apart from Patrick Gordon Walker , whom he appointed Foreign Secretary , and James Griffiths , who was sent to the newly created Welsh Office , only he possessed Cabinet experience . |
| 27 | Hannah Hauxwell possesses an unusual sensitivity for one who was reared to the truly spartan life of an isolated dale in the thirties and forties when sheer hardship invariably deadened any aesthetic tendencies . |
| 28 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 29 | Seymour Mullings , hitherto Minister of Finance , became Minister of Agriculture , replacing Horace Clarke , who moved to the Ministry of Mining and Energy , hitherto held by Hugh Small , who was moved to the newly organized Ministry of Industry and Commerce . |
| 30 | In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy . |