Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 2 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 3 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 4 | I was born into the first generation of women who could actually choose — without risking death in an illegal abortion — when and whether we would have children . |
| 5 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 6 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 7 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 8 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 9 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 10 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 11 | ‘ I was pushed into the 13th London Rifles — Princess Louise 's Kensington Regiment . |
| 12 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 13 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I was barred after the first one . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 16 | And , if any other recommendation be needed , I was asked for the second time to be coach monitor on our outing to Brighton , so you can see that I must be OK . |
| 17 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 18 | In the school , I was told in the First Aid that you could always tell a fractured femur ( which happened with elderly women as a rule ) . |
| 19 | as I was going with the fourth year |
| 20 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 21 | One of the moons is in fact the remains of another planet , and it is one of the conclusions of our survey that this is a world which was resettled during the Second Empire . ’ |
| 22 | The church , which was built in the 13th century , stands isolated in a field at the north end of the village , and is dedicated to St Margaret . |
| 23 | Opposite at No. 36 is the Lobkovic palace , formerly the palace of the Pernštejn family , which was built in the second half of the 16C and restored in 1651–8 by Carlo Lurago . |
| 24 | From here there is a good view of the fortress of Nossa Senhora da Conceição which was built in the seventeenth century on the Loo Rock to protect ships in the harbour . |
| 25 | THE FINAL POLICY RULES GOVERNing at Park Royal , news of which was broken in the last issue of Guinness Today , have still to be finalised . |
| 26 | Since the first royal radio message in 1932 , which was followed by the first TV broadcast on Christmas Day 1957 , the BBC has been in charge of security . |
| 27 | The cathedral , which was begun in the eleventh century , shows clearly its Moorish influence throughout in its zebra striped patterns , lozenge and diamond inlay and cusped arches . |
| 28 | Under the terms of the Feb. 12 agreement — which was reached during the fourth round of the current inter-Korean sports talks — the two countries arranged to send a single team to the 41st World Table Tennis Championships in Japan ( April 24-May 6 ) and to the sixth World Youth Football Championships in Portugal ( June 14-30 ) . |
| 29 | In addressing this issue , Bentham foreshadowed , inter alia , both the work on orthodox organisation and management theory which was developed in the first three decades of this century ( Hume , 1981 p 6 ) and that on space planning which has followed ( Lipman et al , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | It all started with the idea of re-establishing the archive of the Verein Berliner Kunstlerinnen ( Association of Women Artists in Berlin ) which was destroyed during the second world war and developed into a journey of discovery , which has reached this point with the following achievements : 1200 women artists on record ; many works discovered ; the archive set up ; a profusely illustrated catalogue ( in fact the word catalogue does not give an idea of the range of articles contained in it since it covers the history of women artists in German-speaking countries , to art-business oriented articles , to facets of the history of the association , followed by a chronological development of the association and a full catalogue of the works on show , divided into sections , as they are in the exhibition ) ; a dictionary with short biographies of 1200 artists and 700 friends of art called Kathe , Paula und der ganze Rest — Ein Nachschlagewerk ( Kathe , Paula and the rest of the bunch ! — A Reference Book ) , which has caused something of a stir ; and of course , finally , the exhibition showing the works of 70 of the members and guests of the association over its 125 year life , which includes 250 works loaned by 100 institutions and individuals . |