Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 32 | ‘ I was pushed out into the garden , but I stayed to watch through the window . |
| 33 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 34 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 35 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 36 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 37 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 38 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
| 39 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 40 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 41 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 42 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 43 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 44 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 45 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 46 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 47 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 48 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 49 | I was taken on as a staff programme researcher for " Here Today " , Salary : £1,100 . |
| 50 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 51 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 52 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 53 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 54 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 55 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 56 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 57 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 58 | ‘ I was brought up as an extreme Conservative with strong Imperialistic ideas , ’ he told his interrogators in 1945 . |
| 59 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 60 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |