Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably I was destined to become a zoologist in later life . |
| 2 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 3 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 4 | A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter . |
| 5 | Some weeks after returning from my exploits in Alaska and Siberia , I was invited to give a lecture on the trip to the Overseas League meeting in the Empress Hotel , Victoria . |
| 6 | In 1989 I was invited to become a member of Academia Europaea ( European Academy ) . |
| 7 | Shortly after I left the public sector again , I was invited to chair a seminar at the Civil Service Staff College at Sunningdale comparing being an accounting officer in the Civil Service and being chairman of a public company and appearing before an annual general meeting . |
| 8 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 9 | I was called to make a statement and later found that I had won the medal . |
| 10 | In particular , I was stimulated to exhume a cutting from the Daily Telegraph of 23 October 1980 . |
| 11 | But if I was pressed to make a choice , apart from Coldingham Loch , I would have to admit that the Whiteadder River is my favourite Border stream , and I confess that I have a vested interest in Whiteadder . |
| 12 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 13 | I remember very clearly a summer holiday years ago when I was learning to ride a bike . |
| 14 | One incident in which I was involved followed a report from the pilot of an incoming merchant ship entering the river Thames . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to have a word with you about this week 's Greek tutorial . ’ |
| 16 | The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | I was struggling to set a mouse-trap . ’ |
| 18 | Well that 's I was intending to have a word with Tom about it . |
| 19 | I was trying make a dive and missed it |
| 20 | I guess I was trying to earn a couple of lowlife brownie points , so I could catch up with Steve and Paul 's criminal pedigree . |
| 21 | ‘ I was trying to find a friend , ’ Blake explained . |
| 22 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 23 | I was trying to solve a mystery , and you were my prime suspect . |
| 24 | I was trying to build a car . |
| 25 | I was trying to make a list of what he owed and how we might get out of this state , which I do n't think he ever got out of . |
| 26 | My first-ever story for a national magazine was about another of my seminal Ali experiences — a sparring session I 'd had with the Champ in 1975 , when , because of his influence , I was trying to make a living as a kickboxer . |
| 27 | " I was trying to play a joke on you , dressing up and that . |
| 28 | I was trying to imagine a girl in a Pittsburgh peep-show , put there by cocaine . |
| 29 | I was fascinated to see a friend train her horses so that she could pick up and clean out front and hind feet from the same side , working in order of near fore , off fore , near hind , off hind . |
| 30 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |