Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry , I was dozing off over there . |
| 2 | Well in in th the year that I was brought up in there was a a much more er er traditional fee structure which simply was n't negotiated in the same way as it is today . |
| 3 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 5 | ‘ I was walking back from here last night when I got lost … ’ |
| 6 | Before the 1983 Act , the C. and A.G. was head of the Exchequer and Audit Department which was made up of around 600 civil servants . |
| 7 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 8 | Instead it was the work of stitching which was put out to poorly paid women . |
| 9 | The agreement , which was drawn up in fairly obscure terms , proposed that the now-sovereign states of the former USSR should return to each other works of art on the basis of whose territory they were created on , the nationality of the artist , or just on the principle of ‘ I want it , it 's mine ’ . |
| 10 | She had been the toast of Berlin but she was getting on by now when one evening she gave a Lieder recital in the Berlin Philharmonie . |
| 11 | ah , she was getting out of there |
| 12 | She was summoned down in exactly fifteen minutes and this time she was more prepared . |
| 13 | She was standing up in just her T-shirt , pants and socks . |
| 14 | We reckon she was brought in from somewhere nearby , and dumped on us . |
| 15 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 16 | Then we was taken out of there into the Corporation Street where the fair used to be held and we had silhouettes of different aircraft on poles and holding them up and we er so as we could recognize them . |
| 17 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |
| 18 | Difficult though it was to come back after so long a lay-off , she was the runner-up in the Yorkshire Championship both in 1950 and in 1953 . |
| 19 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 20 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 21 | It was creeping down from outside , from somewhere far to the north , well up in the hills a mile or more away . |
| 22 | His fame , however , rests on his A Complete and Universal English Dictionary , first published in 1774 ; it was to pass through at least twenty-three reprints and editions by 1848 . |
| 23 | It was looked on as not advisable to deal with it under the Liverpool Corporation Act . |
| 24 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 25 | It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965 . |
| 26 | Detectives want to hear from anyone who saw a light blue Ford Transit van , registration number GIB 915 , in Castlerock yesterday morning or between the village and the secluded spot on Springburn Road , Milltown , where it was burnt out at 9.35am . |
| 27 | He was to sit in at least thirteen further Parliaments , six times for Guildford and five times for Surrey . |
| 28 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
| 29 | But in his next match he was sent off for twice attacking the goalie . |
| 30 | The heights of Best 's career are easily brought to mind the night he destroyed Benfica in the 1966 European Cup quarter-finals , the night in 1967 in Belfast when he was sent off after single-handedly dismantling a superior Scotland side , and of course the famous night in 1968 when he led Manchester United to a European Cup victory in extra time . |