Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 2 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 3 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |
| 4 | If you were in private accommodation you were noth , you were nothing like so well off . |
| 5 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 6 | He had to remind himself that when she was in this mood she was a mistress of the single , agonized word , the mutely suffering glance . |
| 7 | He were in this morning he 's er had summat to eat , well he 's made it obvious . |
| 8 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 9 | It was in some figure you ca n't even relate to . |
| 10 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |