Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 2 | ‘ I was looking for engineering companies to invest in and manage , ’ he says . |
| 3 | After a month 's stay at UCH ( University College Hospital in Central London ) I was transferred to specialist cardiologist Dr Jane Sommerville at the then National Heart Hospital . |
| 4 | I was hit by joyride car , says soldier |
| 5 | Hello John erm firstly I would sympathise with those that erm have been complaining about television programmes , although I erm did n't watch a great deal of television yesterday , I was listening to Radio Oxford actually , but erm from erm Ceefax I noticed that the Neighbours was broadcast twice . |
| 6 | I was born on Christmas Day nineteen twelve . |
| 7 | I was born in South London in 1955 , the fourth child and a twin . |
| 8 | I was born in Gran Canaria in the city of Las Palmas , which is the administrative centre of the Canary Islands . |
| 9 | I was flying as Deputy Group Commander , and followed him one minute later . |
| 10 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 11 | At the time I was writing for Bicycle Times and one day Dick 's Arctic footpath came to mind . |
| 12 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 13 | For Christmas 1943 I was asked by Air India to broadcast a Christmas message to Christians in Southeast Asia , which I was glad to do , having our Christian friends of different races in Burma much in mind . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We would have been about 13 and I was playing for South London district and Ian was in the Blackheath team , which also had Paul Elliott in it . |
| 15 | Cos I was asking , for a number of reasons I was asking for floor plans for our , you see . |
| 16 | I explain that I was asking about Class War Federation 's next event . |
| 17 | So this is how Freud originally discovered transference , as an observation made in the course of analysis , and as we saw , erm , a couple of weeks ago , whenever it was I was talking about group psychology , transference was a fundamental concept in Freud 's theory of groups . |
| 18 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I went to Africa to teach but I was re-routed into education administration and I have stayed in that profession ever since . |
| 20 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |
| 21 | Maturity brings new perspectives and the idea that they are often manipulated for their sporting prowess brings with it a clarity of perception , a perception succinctly summarized by Birchfield 's sprinter Lincoln Asquith : ‘ I was used by school teachers 'cause I was good at sport . |
| 22 | I was stationed on Christmas Island for the British Megaton Trials during 1957–59 and was present for three H-bomb tests . |
| 23 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 24 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 25 | But last night he vowed to soldier on , saying : ‘ I was encouraged by telephone messages of support from other managers , including my predecessor Paul Malone . ’ |
| 26 | By way of variation I was coming off night duty one cold , grey winter 's morning and very much looking forward to a warm bed when , for some unknown reason , my revenue conscience was aroused by the sight of a man , whom I recognised as an engineer from one of our early morning ferries , hurrying up the road towards town . |
| 27 | The project began back in 1976 when I was working for Capital Radio , London 's independent local radio station . |
| 28 | ‘ It was when I was working on Wildlife Safari to Argentina , filming in a subtropical province in the north , that I got this lump on my back . |
| 29 | ‘ Earlier in my career I was working in hotel kitchens all the hours God sent , and the pay was very low . |
| 30 | I was working in brother Louis 's printing works . |