Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've just finished the first round of waivers for people receiving the Home Care Service , and the criteria that I was giving you reflected those , and so when you get your letter , if you feel that you 've got particular financial problems or particular family situations we should take into account , erm then do get in touch with us and we 'll process it and we 'll set out a procedure for you in the letter that we send . |
| 2 | It was curiosity , when I was sixteen at school I was told I had another sister at the same school . |
| 3 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 4 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 5 | ‘ She was told she needed more experience nursing very sick children . ’ |
| 6 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 7 | ‘ It was suggested we start this action group with three or four others , ’ said Mr Fenton . |
| 8 | How marvellous it was to hear him say that . |
| 9 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 10 | He was having it done this afternoon were n't he ? |
| 11 | When they understood what was expected we had few communication problems . |