Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 2 | In 1988 , I was producing a major women 's conference at the Barbican and we needed a big bank of flowers . |
| 3 | I might enjoy sampling what I was touching a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 4 | A few days later I was touring the African townships . |
| 5 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 6 | I was involved a few years ago in the in the Lance , the rescue er That the lance went ashore on Hoy and er the helicopter there took the casualties of the Lance and dropped |
| 7 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 8 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 9 | Well I 'm sorry like but I was getting a few interruptions on the landing |
| 10 | While I was getting the Irish Times yesterday I happen to see the back page of the Sun ; - ) where Fergies autobiog is being serialised . |
| 11 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 12 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 13 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 14 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 15 | When I got home , a week later , wobbling about on crutches , I was to confront the grinding realities of being involved in a car crash . |
| 16 | Jane also felt she was not really in a position to refuse : ‘ I was missing the fifth years , which meant I had lots of ‘ free time ’ , so I was in a position where really I could n't refuse to do it . ’ |
| 17 | All this time I was putting the finishing touches to our hero 's book . |
| 18 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 19 | In my dreams I was admitting the full implications of my habit of self-denial , that is , that it amounted in effect to life-denial . |
| 20 | Now I know as I was saying a few moments ago , I travelled to the continent just recently , and I know we had to pay a surcharge on the flight . |
| 21 | I was to travel the seventeen kilometres to Parma every day in a tram which was hauled by a steam engine . |
| 22 | I , I do n't know , I certainly would n't rely on just a sales brochure if I was making a major trans |
| 23 | It felt as if it had been split in two by a cold chisel and someone was grinding the two halves together . |
| 24 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 25 | Two other methods , which did not involve a return to the original pasture , were strip grazing , in which sheep were confined to a narrow strip across the field by fences which were moved every few days , and creep grazing , in which a single fence confined the ewes , but since it possessed a " creep " or hole , allowed the lambs to graze forward . |
| 26 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 27 | The Church gave to every community , large or small , refuge from persecution and pillage , provided education and learning , medical aid and a basis for life by which were allayed the superstitious fears of the individual , which stemmed from his lack of experience and knowledge of health , life and death , understanding of the world and of man himself . |
| 28 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 29 | There was intense suspicion of the ‘ foreigner ’ ( although he was as likely to be a trader from the nearby town as a native of another land ) , but the ordinary inhabitants of the territories which were to become the modern States of Europe had no sense of common identity , of membership of national groups . |
| 30 | The DAR were very snazz at what they did , which was remembering the founding fathers , upholding the traditional American way of life and torturing and killing people . |