Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did . |
| 2 | No I was looking at trees in er B and Q |
| 3 | I was tempted by fantasies of the past , |
| 4 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 5 | As the son and grandson of miners , I was reared on stories of coal and collieries . |
| 6 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 7 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 8 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 9 | Amy at the stove , experimenting with coloured dyes ( 6,7,8,9 ) : ‘ For this print , I was thinking of patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 11 | Well I was thinking of things like witchcraft , which would seem a rather a luxury fringe subject , but some of the most fascinating research that 's been done recently in my period of early modern history has been showing how witchcraft erm was the second most important erm crime to come before the courts apart from theft in , in my period , and in exploring why witchcraft had this appeal you 're learning much more about the age . |
| 12 | I knew Derek really enjoyed our trips and was only kidding , but I was thinking of ways in which I could raise more money to pay my share . |
| 13 | I was thinking in terms of between thirty-five and forty-five . |
| 14 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 15 | Even when I was coaching the national team in New Zealand I was coaching at clubs in Christchurch . |
| 16 | But the funniest expression I ever heard was in New Zealand where I was staying with friends of mine and their young daughter . |
| 17 | I was charged with hymns to water , and in praise |
| 18 | Constable I was charged with offences of disobedience to orders , neglect of duty , and smoking in uniform on duty … the light punishment of reduction in one class for six months , the deprivation of fifty-two shillings in pay . |
| 19 | Then I was tested for allergies to the serums and taught how and where to inject myself . |
| 20 | At one course , I was playing for experts from the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London . |
| 21 | The offence in section I was committed by goods with a false trade description being ‘ offered ’ for sale . |
| 22 | I was travelling with camels in hot , arid country under testing conditions where , if things went wrong , I could get no help and where men 's lives depended on my judgement . |
| 23 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 24 | He talked rather obsessively about those times , and while he talked I was overwhelmed by feelings of desolation : this no man 's land made me uneasy . |
| 25 | Er the Noble Baroness is is right erm we do notice that where a consultant is in charge the difference is very great indeed , I 'm afraid I do n't have the figure but I will certainly give it to her , er but also we know that where there are er hospital discharge managers where senior nurses are bed managers , the difference is really quite considerable er and that is what I was saying in terms of managing the process . |
| 26 | Yeah , and I came , for three weeks I was coming down stairs on my bottom like a toddler , I could n't go from |
| 27 | I guess I was afflicted with delusions of grandeur . |
| 28 | I was reminded of stories about some immigrant Irish who arrived in America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger , bereft of even the basic skills of domestic cookery . |
| 29 | Firstly , as a fairly recently promoted primary headteacher I was suffering from periods of anxiety about meeting the responsibilities of the post . |
| 30 | The climb to the snowline was not pleasant , and I was haunted by memories of the boredom of Ben Nevis 's path , even though here there was no path . |