Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 2 | The South Korean justification to Jessup was that no one would be convicted , unless he or she was taking orders from a foreign power . |
| 3 | THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia . |
| 4 | The kidnapper has absconded from the probation hostel where he was awaiting sentence after admitting committing the offence.Since going on the run , Thomas Rennie has phoned the woman 's family to say he 's ’ going to get them . ’ |
| 5 | He joins Yuill from Twyfords where he was marketing manager for four years . |
| 6 | After just two years at Max Factor , which he joined in 1986 and where he was marketing director of colouring and skincare products , he was appointed marketing director . |
| 7 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 8 | ‘ Before that I was modelling clothes for some of the best fashion-houses in London — and in Paris too , sometimes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 10 | In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before . |
| 11 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 12 | It appeared on the day that I was answering questions on transport on the floor of the House and there was a question on the future of railway services on the order paper . |
| 13 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 14 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 15 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 16 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 17 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 18 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 19 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 20 | ‘ Her friends were under the impression that she was to spend Christmas with you in America . ’ |
| 21 | Somehow she suddenly felt so overwhelmingly aware of Ven that , while recognising that she was eating beef of some kind , food as such seemed incidental . |
| 22 | Now that she was wearing skirts above the knees , as fashion demanded , he 'd noticed her long , slender legs and admired her ankles . |
| 23 | She had the oddest impression that she was taking part in a play , for which she knew neither her lines , nor the stage directions . |
| 24 | Zeinab announced that she was taking Owen to the theatre . |
| 25 | Celie finally stood up to Albert after Shug told him that she was taking Celie with her to Memphis . |
| 26 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 27 | ‘ How do you do ? ’ said Julia , realising that she was shaking hands with the man who had sent David to fight with the Italian partisans . |
| 28 | And , so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more , that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome . |
| 29 | She tells me it felt as though she was living in a violent void , that she was losing touch with everything until … ’ |
| 30 | It appears , from later information , that she was travelling light from London to Blackburn . |