Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 4 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 5 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 6 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 7 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 8 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 9 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 10 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 11 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 12 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 13 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 14 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 15 | I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately . |
| 16 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 17 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I was sent on with a minute to go and never touched the ball . |
| 19 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 20 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 21 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 22 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 23 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 24 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 25 | Suddenly I was struck down by an illness . |
| 26 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 27 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 28 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 29 | Whatever he heard me say , some time later I was led out of the doors and taken to rooms they said were mine , as if they were pleased about it . |
| 30 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |