Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 2 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 4 | Because I must have been noticed , I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles . |
| 5 | I was invited by the owners of a struggling estate in Bardez province to look around their 300-year-old house . |
| 6 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 7 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 8 | And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing . |
| 9 | And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India . |
| 10 | I was looking at the vectors on either side of him to see if he had any friends and when I came back he was gone . ’ |
| 11 | As I was looking through the products of many well-known ‘ British ’ firms , I was disgusted to find all were made in countries like China , South Korea and Taiwan — anywhere but Britain ! |
| 12 | And I was looking through the videos there . |
| 13 | I was looking through the archives recently and some rather fascinating facts may interest you ! |
| 14 | When I was looking through the catalogues for what to buy I was very impressed with some of the newer books . |
| 15 | I was grabbed by the lapels of my dressing gown and pinned against the wall . |
| 16 | I was tempted through the doors of the trade show . |
| 17 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 18 | If you were n't have said ooh I was listening on the phones and just a leave it on , you know the phones . |
| 19 | ‘ I was lookin' at the pichers . ’ |
| 20 | Even so , I do n't believe I was prepared for the facts . |
| 21 | I was sent to The Children 's Service , usually held at St. Mary Magdalene 's Church in Gigant Street at 9.30 am . |
| 22 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 23 | I was born in the rooms above this shop . ’ |
| 24 | But I was assured by the nurses that that would n't be the case . |
| 25 | A long time ago I was ruled by the Pharaohs . |
| 26 | Talking to colleagues from other establishments at a conference some years later , I was struck by the similarities in their early beginnings — often in a portacabin or separate annexe from the main college building , or in accommodation previously occupied by a school . |
| 27 | I was struck by the words of Graham Bishop of Salomon Brothers in a recent publication on the importance of the no-bail-out rule . |
| 28 | I was transfixed by the chandeliers , their crystal drops shining like jewels . |
| 29 | This was also the first of many operations at Poole in which I was involved on the cutters . |
| 30 | ‘ I was thinking along the lines of a gentle 90-minute run … but gradually the women and the M60s and then even the M65s began to pass me . ’ |