Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 2 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | A fortnight ago , I was invited to a meeting of Somali refugees in East Ham town hall . |
| 6 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |
| 7 | I was invited to the school in the village of Atgor . |
| 8 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 9 | Because I must have been noticed , I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was invited by the owners of a struggling estate in Bardez province to look around their 300-year-old house . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was escorted around the prison by members of the Prison Officers Association . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I used to wonder what on earth people found to talk about for so long , and on the occasion when I was called to a neighbour 's telephone in Baldersdale , I was so uneasy that someone had to hold it to my ear . |
| 17 | About three years ago , I was called to a bread commercial : Windmill Bread . |
| 18 | I was called to a house and there was a man in agony . |
| 19 | One such dreadful night I was called to the gate house by Mr Rideout , our so loyal and efficient gate porter . |
| 20 | The first week in July I was called to the Malet Street premises of the University . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I was called from the incident room by the desk sergeant who recognised her . |
| 23 | When I went to Highlander I was looking for a way which could help towards more effective participation and the development of better non-formal opportunities in adult education on social issues which affect communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 24 | I was looking for a way out into the aisle . |
| 25 | I was looking for a man named Tom Tunney , a washed-out writer and a deep-dyed drunk . |
| 26 | ‘ I was looking for a bird 's nest to show Tory , Mummy . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I was looking for a hiding place for some stupid necklace I 'd bought , and the bureau was the nearest thing to hand ! ’ |
| 28 | Nobody had heard of Rosie O'Dell ; I was looking for a needle in a haystack . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When I decided to take the part I was looking for a role that was the opposite of my character Dylan . |
| 30 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |