Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 2 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 3 | I was learning to shut out the daily discomforts , however , either by looking around , or by playing mental games . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 5 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 6 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 7 | ‘ Because , ’ said Riley through gritted teeth , ‘ I was told to keep up the pressure on him . ’ |
| 8 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 9 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 10 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 11 | I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out |
| 12 | First thing next morning I was going to fire off a letter , I thought , when I heard something . |
| 13 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 14 | However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district . |
| 15 | Erm Richard you were trying to break up a big lump of snow yesterday were n't you ? |
| 16 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 17 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 18 | I agree with you that Mrs Thatcher is a representative of her class , first and foremost , but I think the way she was treated showed up a lot of rather unpleasant things about the er the political movements which opposed her . |
| 19 | She was determined to find out the truth and act on it . |
| 20 | But chance played an important part in this , placing Norah Brunt in the right place at the right time — she was asked to take over a retiring teacher 's movement class but refused to do so without a qualification . |
| 21 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 22 | The nurse , who was dismissed , claimed she was trained to carry out the tests by the doctor who employed her , GP Dr Ashok Kumar . |
| 23 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 24 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 25 | She was trying to chat up the boy who was serving . |
| 26 | She was going to take back the night . |
| 27 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 28 | She was left to bring up a family she had to go the banks for money the banks were all and they refused her money to keep the farm going . |
| 29 | Maisie Williams was thrilled when she was told to turn up the following week : |
| 30 | But the funding fell through , and she was told to give up the project . |