Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 2 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 3 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
| 4 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 6 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 7 | Jane also felt she was not really in a position to refuse : ‘ I was missing the fifth years , which meant I had lots of ‘ free time ’ , so I was in a position where really I could n't refuse to do it . ’ |
| 8 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 9 | Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right . |
| 10 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
| 11 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 12 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 13 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 14 | Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green . |
| 15 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 16 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 17 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 18 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
| 19 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 20 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 21 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ We were planning the next evacuation when the shelling began … we were flat on the ground on the landing zone when the last shell impacted about 20 yards from us , injuring two Canadian UN soldiers . ’ |
| 23 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 24 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 25 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
| 26 | Men , I know , talk of such things with eagerness , with a little contempt ; it is as if they were describing the last meal they had , course by course . |
| 27 | Between them they were carrying the sixth figure — the limp , white faced form of Brett Grant . |
| 28 | They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going |
| 29 | It was nearing the ninth hour , and Jesus , who had resisted sin throughout his life , now , because of his obedience , became sin itself — not by wilful act but by being made the crucible of the whole sum of human evil . |
| 30 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |