Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 2 | Where I was going that morning I forget |
| 3 | He or she was given considerable powers , and had to be consulted by LEAs over their general development plans and any specific proposals to establish , close or alter schools ( this changed under the 1980 Act ) . |
| 4 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 5 | He later admitted he had provided an affidavit for Clarke , who escaped from the Maze prison where he was serving 18 years for the attempted murder of a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 6 | Nick Moore first wrote to me from Ashwell prison , Leics , in January , where he was serving seven years — for building society robberies in Derby . |
| 7 | Over in Ireland Jim Dreaper gave Carvill 's Hill his seasonal debut in the Durkan Brothers International Punchestown Chase , where he was beaten three lengths by last season 's Irish Grand National winner Maid Of Money , who was receiving 5lb and started favourite . |
| 8 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 9 | He was also closely associated with the work of George Devine and Tony Richardson at the Royal Court Theatre where he was to design 17 productions , starting with Look Back in Anger in 1956 . |
| 10 | Where he 'd come from and where he was ensured one thing : like Garnett , Mercer , and Loach , Goodwin was a socialist . |
| 11 | He possessed a house in Twickenham in addition to his official residence in the palace of Westminster , but his principal seat was in Eydon , Northamptonshire , where he was buried 8 June 1691 . |
| 12 | He lived on quietly at Fen Ditton , where he was buried 9 December 1690 . |
| 13 | He also plans to return to Milan 's La Scala opera house where he was jeered last December for missing a note during a performance of Verdi 's ‘ Don Carlos . ’ |
| 14 | In 1887 he was invited to Kensington chapel , where he was ordained 17 October 1889 : determined that Horne should be its minister , Kensington waited eighteen months for him to complete his course . |
| 15 | I think that he 'd reached a stage in his life where he was to become less community minded and more geared toward the fulfilment of his own career . ’ |
| 16 | , Matthew ( 1753–1781 ) , engineer and inventor , was born at 3 Narrow Wine Street , Bristol , where he was baptized 18 November 1753 , the son of Mary and William Wasbrough , originally a barber-surgeon and peruke maker , who was in partnership with Roger Rice in a brass-founding and clock-making business in Narrow Wine Street . |
| 17 | Barry had entered a Florida alcohol abuse centre on Jan. 22 , four days after being arrested in the Vista International Hotel , Washington , where he was filmed smoking crack cocaine in the room of a former girlfriend , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 18 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 19 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 20 | Northwestern Bell Telephone Co et al , where it was held that proof of an organised crime nexus is not required for RICO to be invoked , it is now clear that the draconian penalties applicable under RICO may be used against insider dealers . |
| 21 | For discussion of adequate display of notice , see Tevan v. Motherwell District Licensing Board ( No. 1 ) 1985 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 14 , where it was held that display of a notice within a post office was sufficient . |
| 22 | This was applied in Dixons Ltd. v. Roberts ( 1894 D.C. ) where it was held that section 14 did not catch a trader who gave a false indication that a refund would be given on any goods purchased , if within seven days the customer was able to buy the same products locally more cheaply . |
| 23 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 24 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
| 25 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 26 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but I ca n't say that I was paying much attention . ’ |
| 28 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 29 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 30 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |