Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother and I were booked for a 5 day course on Harperig Reservoir , with one instructor and a group of about 10 children . |
| 2 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
| 3 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 4 | I was listening to the two in the back working their way through a typical RAF ditty with the repetitive chorus of , ‘ There 's only one bar — BOO ! |
| 5 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
| 6 | I was born in the seventies she might be in this one . |
| 7 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 8 | Oh I was reading about the twenty three stone ! |
| 9 | I was running in the 100 and 200 metres with some very imposing names : Don Quarrie , who was the Olympic 200 metres champion from Montreal three years earlier ; Allan Wells , the British number one ; James Gilkes from Guyana , a world-class runner ; and the big , imposing figure of Haseley Crawford , the Montreal 100 metres gold medallist . |
| 10 | In August 1942 I was delivered to No 7 Squadron at RAF Oakington by an oppo , Geoff Wornersley , who shortly followed me to PFF . |
| 11 | No I think I was restricted to the one brainwave this week . |
| 12 | ‘ I was attacked by a dozen vagabonds two miles from here . |
| 13 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 14 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
| 15 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 16 | Erm we had gone down to , to , to Bognor to the christening of her , our nephew and she was n't too , th that was in November , it was sort of middle of November , and something was going wrong there and so when I , when I was retiring on the twenty seventh of November she could n't come in and er |
| 17 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 18 | Er and you could go to a boarding school but if you did n't you were moved round every three or four years at the most to a different school . |
| 19 | You were saying this morning on the end of the news you were talking about the four man |
| 20 | It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity . |
| 21 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 22 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 23 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |
| 24 | To go back to the Gdynia one on the ninth of October nineteen forty three , I have to state that when our crew arrived in England we went to er through school at Bovingdon for a couple of weeks then we were assigned to the Ninety Second Bomb Group and they wan na be sure we fit in . |
| 25 | It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level . |
| 26 | That is why we were reckoning on a 10 year transition . |
| 27 | The van doors swung open and as Antinou 's lads eased us out we were treated to a 6 a.m. view of Clapton . |
| 28 | It seemed as if we were flying in the 1930s . |
| 29 | ‘ We were alerted by a 999 call from the pilot station at the mouth of the Tees , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 30 | Having arranged a guard on the aircraft we all went back to Shaibah , where we were entertained by the one lady passenger in the Officers ' Mess . |