Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 2 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 3 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 4 | The first week in July I was called to the Malet Street premises of the University . |
| 5 | I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten . |
| 6 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to do women 's programmes but I was moved to the God slot . |
| 8 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 9 | At the end of the first year I was summoned to the Dean 's office . |
| 10 | ‘ I was born in the Rhondda valley , at a little place called Treorky — and the name 's Pritchard , Huw Pritchard . ’ |
| 11 | I was assured by the SIB that there would be a court martial and XYZ would be charged with rape but that did not happen , he was charged only with being in the married quarter area , fined 14 days wages and demoted in rank to Trooper . |
| 12 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 14 | I was thinking about the Sheff Wed game on 12 Feb . |
| 15 | I was thinking about the Wigan one . |
| 16 | I was pushed in the Bradford TEC 's direction by the local Chamber of Commerce . |
| 17 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
| 18 | Anyway , in what seems the distant past of the late Seventies , when I was reporting from The Gnoll , they were not much good , not many players from Neath won caps and , once the new Welsh Challenge Cup had been won in 1972 , an utterly barren decade ensued . |
| 19 | Then , after a rather casual interview oil my part , I was appointed to the West Riding staff with Rosemary . |
| 20 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 21 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 22 | In early 1944 I was asked by the Burma Government if I would consider deputising for B.R. Pearn while he went on a much-needed furlough . |
| 23 | In May I was playing in the FA Cup final against Liverpool . |
| 24 | I was playing against the West Indies and I scored eight off a Cummins over without hitting a four , and for Natal |I 've build some 80s and 90s that have been matchwinning performances , but this time I 've just got far too excited ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I was rehearsing at the Ward Theatre , Kingston , singing ‘ Suspicious Minds ’ , Elvis ' song . |
| 26 | Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language . |
| 27 | It took me a month to pass the first aid , anti-gas and light rescue tests , and then I was allocated to the Rivermead Court post . |
| 28 | This extravaganza was directed by Max Reinhart and it gave me my first experience as an impresario , for I was commissioned by the MGM office for Canada to ‘ organize the promotion ’ of the film in our area . |
| 29 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 30 | Next day I was thrashing along the Kingston bypass again . |