Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was upstairs with the other two , she could have just taken the other one |
| 2 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just in the right place at the right time , I guess . |
| 4 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 5 | Somebody knew and I was soon outside the front door . |
| 6 | I was thus in the interesting position of paying to be patronized , asset-stripping my future and still cutting a despicable figure . |
| 7 | I could hear Jamie and the girl running after me shouting , but I was already past the old chip shop and the war memorial and picking up speed . |
| 8 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 9 | In fact without Barry I was possibly in the deep brown stuff up neck-aways . |
| 10 | I do n't think that one could have a consensus with that regard , I mean people were split really on that issue erm as I have said , personally I was always against the whole thing , against the war in general between Iraq and Iran because it was devastating for both countries . |
| 11 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 12 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 13 | I was n't as I was there in the early seventies f for my first and then subsequently . |
| 14 | as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then . |
| 15 | ‘ I was once on the receiving end of one I think when I bought a suit in Hong Kong . |
| 16 | During the year a copy of Giovanni Battista Guarini 's pastoral drama Il pastor fido ( Venice , 1602–03 ) , which was formerly in the private library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun , was acquired . |
| 17 | In the group as a whole the concentrations of amidated gastrin in fasting plasma were 10.8 ( 2.9 ) pmol/l which was well within the normal range for this assay ( <30 pM ) . |
| 18 | The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned . |
| 19 | I put my head out of the door which was directly beside the hanging space , and looked up and down the corridor . |
| 20 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 21 | Claire Lucas ( Mrs Tomlinson ) and her husband Simon have started the Beaufort Polo Club at Westonbirt , Gloucestershire , keeping the name of the Polo Club which was there in the 1930's . |
| 22 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |
| 23 | As Maura watched the dust motes flying through the air in the rays of the June sun she wished that she was outside with the younger children . |
| 24 | When she came round she was already in the local hospital , matters taken out of her hands . |
| 25 | Originally from Hull and now living near Llangollen she was previously with the Royal Exchange Theatre , Manchester and is a former Press officer for the National Musems and Galleries , Merseyside . |
| 26 | She was so unlike the groomed and unemotional woman Charlotte knew that , for a second , she thought she might actually be somebody else . |
| 27 | At best , she had what could be described as deuterocanonical status ; she was unquestionably outside the usual canon of poets , but occasionally she was rediscovered and even admired . |
| 28 | She was there at the departmental conference and he included her in the general nod and smile as he entered the executive producer 's office , but his eyes were guarded , and not just on her account . |
| 29 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 30 | She was still in the dark coat and dress she had selected for the Jockey Club hearing and Nick was in pinstripes . |