Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 2 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 3 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 4 | I do n't remember what I was reading that Friday evening . |
| 5 | I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet . |
| 6 | I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair . |
| 7 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |
| 8 | When I was cycling lovely summer afternoon , well er four i , about four o'clock and er there was three farmers round a big sign , in in there and tha that 's where I went up cycled . |
| 9 | On a recent visit to a day centre , where a large number of old people had regular baths , I was told that bath time was a time for confidences and chats . |
| 10 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 11 | I was standing outside Brigade H.Q when the reinforcements marched through the village . |
| 12 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 13 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 14 | She was killed last Wednesday south of Cairo when the tour bus she was travelling on was stopped and gunmen opened fire . |
| 15 | One woman was close to tears as she was named Top Unit Manager of the Week . |
| 16 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 17 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 18 | In 1980 she was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Calabar , Nigeria , is now a Fellow at London University and takes creative writing groups at Goldsmiths College . |
| 19 | It was a strange pilgrimage she was making this Sunday afternoon . |
| 20 | They was hoping three months work then . |
| 21 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 22 | In the 1970s high domestic inflation rates encouraged governments to change the emphasis of economic policies towards money supply control , as it was believed excessive money creation had caused inflation . |
| 23 | Moreover , only a very small segment of jejunum was exposed to the full dose of cholera toxin and because of the rapid binding of the toxin to the mucosa it was presumed that cholera toxin was not available in the distal small bowel to induce secretion . |
| 24 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 25 | It was announced that milk consumption would be banned from all farms within 200 square miles around the plant . |
| 26 | –n the day of their arrival , it was announced that food rationing would be introduced . |
| 27 | It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition ! |
| 28 | Not only were there numerous deep recessions , but by the end of the century it was discovered foreign iron ore was of a higher quality , and although the MSG works did smelt imports from Spain , Russia and Chile , it was furnaces in ports that could do the cheapest . |
| 29 | It was to include public administration training courses and bursaries for black South Africans likely to become senior officials in the new political system . |
| 30 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |