Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said one : ‘ I lied about my birth but I realised I was different and always coming top of the class did not help . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 3 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 4 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 5 | She was shrewd and quite calculating even then . |
| 6 | I had a phone call to Israel the other night and somebody who is very experienced in stress prevention , but still she was afraid and just finding out how isolated those kind of , you know , how isolated they 're feeling out there , the fear of the chemical warfare , and maybe now I 'm able to write to her to reduce some of that isolation . |
| 7 | As a photographer , she was unique and sometimes terrifying in her decision to publicly share her experience as victim of the social discourses of the family , health and the law . |
| 8 | For the first time since Heaven , Ace thought of Julian , and the times they had sat in worn green leather armchairs , the hum of traffic from the A40 outside making waves in their glasses , knowing that the barman thought they were underage but also knowing that Ace intimidated him so much that he would n't say anything . |
| 9 | When she looked up again , they were clear and slightly pleading . |
| 10 | It was worse than ever getting up the companion , much worse than last time . |
| 11 | It was strange and horribly unsettling to have such violently opposing feelings about a person . |
| 12 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 13 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |