Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergei said Bernard has n't been in touch with Bailey for days , certainly not since C.W. and I were assigned to the case . ’ |
| 2 | One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church . |
| 3 | Marius and I were chosen by the rest of the group to finish off punishing him . |
| 4 | I wonder if the Secretary of the Cabinet would go into the box if I were found outside the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 5 | Flora and I were walking through the palm grove , on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley . |
| 6 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 7 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 8 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 9 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 10 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 11 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 12 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 13 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 14 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 15 | I was invited to the school in the village of Atgor . |
| 16 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 17 | A few years back I was invited by the Church of England to be an ecumenical guest at a consultation , held at Ely , on the charismatic renewal movement . |
| 18 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 19 | After the shock , I was warmed by the idea that the visitor was Jesus or an angel , and then terrified by the thought that it was an omen of my death . |
| 20 | I was escorted around the prison by members of the Prison Officers Association . |
| 21 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 22 | One such dreadful night I was called to the gate house by Mr Rideout , our so loyal and efficient gate porter . |
| 23 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 24 | I was called from the incident room by the desk sergeant who recognised her . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , I was looking for the loo , ’ I said as casually as I could . |
| 26 | ‘ I was looking for the bathroom , and I surprised him — it was an accident . |
| 27 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 28 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 29 | ‘ For weeks I was looking into the face of every stranger thinking ‘ you could be the one that killed my Brian ’ , ’ said Joan . |
| 30 | I was looking at the scalectrix . |