Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 2 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 3 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 4 | I was born two miles away . |
| 5 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 6 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 7 | We have a friendly hug and I tell her I was laying three places anyway . |
| 8 | I was riding that bike yesterday and it was alright but I si slipped doing that . |
| 9 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 10 | Yeah , rich colour I was having this year very well . |
| 11 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 12 | When I was putting this book together , an acquaintance told me about her ‘ getting-to-know-the-neighbours ’ spaghetti parties . |
| 13 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 14 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 15 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 16 | , ah no , but you , but you were n't aware of that because you were on the floor , as I was saying five minutes ago . |
| 17 | Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure . |
| 18 | Er well I was doing all kinds really there was a staff then and of servants but I was lo I was er looking after the old lady more than anything . |
| 19 | After seven years the insect was blown into the Great Hall of Inver Cechmaine and was accidentally swallowed by the wife of that nobleman ; she was reborn nine months later , again given the name Etain and growing to be an exquisitely beautiful woman . |
| 20 | She was lost all hands aboard . |
| 21 | and there was another one across the way and she was deteriorating , she was getting nervous right there , see if I had to be brought away you know |
| 22 | Sweeping waves of desire were pitching Sarella headlong to the point where she knew she was leaving common sense behind . |
| 23 | She was born nine months ago after he was interned . |
| 24 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 25 | She was diagnosed five years ago , about the time David Markham went out of her life . ’ |
| 26 | She was followed five minutes later by an angry Carole , suitcase in hand , who was to find that she was unable to quit the hotel until midnight . |
| 27 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 28 | She was scrapped many years ago . |
| 29 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 30 | She was imprisoned 12 feet underground in a narrow chamber for a day until a man walking his dogs discovered her and called the RSPCA . |