Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 2 | Of course , I was insulated from the more unpleasant aspects of city life , wallowing in the luxury of the Savoy , being waited on hand and foot . |
| 3 | Secondly , I was struck by the unexpectedly high use of nonsense words , used in order to signal a breakdown in the speaker 's ongoing mental processing — when a word has become completely unretrievable . |
| 4 | Since I was living with the most out gay man I know , I was n't short of an opinion on anything to do with anything in faggotdom , or at least the social side of it . |
| 5 | My employment with CBC began at the salary of $150. per month which was very acceptable , and I was assigned to the newly created post as Talks Producer . |
| 6 | I was fascinated by the nearly naked figures of ladies in different positions that were painted on it . |
| 7 | I was issued after the immediately after the briefing I was issued with two weapons a revolver and a shot gun . |
| 8 | Many times , in the middle of the night when she could not sleep , she was faced with the slightly guilty realization that she was behaving rather badly , but in the daytime it did n't seem to matter . |
| 9 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |
| 10 | ‘ She was fighting from the very first minute and she is still fighting . ’ |
| 11 | She was keeping to the more furtive by-ways of the city and away from loyal troops . |
| 12 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 13 | When , a little later on , as she was sitting beside the now sleeping child , she heard Liza come into the house , Harriet did not go downstairs but waited until her daughter stood in the doorway of the bedroom , wild-eyed and trembling . |
| 14 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 15 | Although police responded with tear gas , they were instructed by the newly elected city Mayor , Sharon Pratt Dixon , not to aggravate the situation by making arrests . |
| 16 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |
| 17 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 18 | Together he and Lij Yasu now raised an army and occupied Magdala , where they were besieged on the almost impregnable mountain-top . |
| 19 | Oh and they were working in the there where that job centre is now it was a big pub . |
| 20 | And they were sitting on the only two chairs at the table . |
| 21 | Labour and Delivery was quiet tonight , and so was Recovery , to which they were directed by the matronly grandmother of five who presided over the ward . |
| 22 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 23 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 24 | Neither Bradford nor his successors obtained a charter for the colony , and because of this it was absorbed into the much larger colony of Massachusetts in 1691 . |
| 25 | It was seen as the most ‘ natural ’ division given the separate roles of men and women in society . |
| 26 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 27 | Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance . |
| 28 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 29 | It was followed by the much more extravagant and fanciful Columbia Market , but this overawed potential vendors , who were not allowed to do too many things ( like sticking bills on the columns inside ) , while potential buyers of the poorer classes did not dare to put a foot inside it . |
| 30 | It was renamed to the more familiar hydrogen in 1790 and ousted hot air as the preferred lifting agent for the next thirty years . |