Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , come to think of it , I was detained on urgent business with a Catholic . |
| 2 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 3 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 4 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 5 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 6 | Well what I was looking at this afternoon was your radiator comes through the floor . |
| 7 | I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’ |
| 8 | As a result of a chance meeting in a Blackpool bar with a student journalist , I was featured in National Student in an article about disabled students . |
| 9 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 10 | I was transferred from one office to another before being shown into an office whose occupant was asleep in an armchair by the window . |
| 11 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 12 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 13 | I was moved to another hostel which was worse . |
| 14 | What I did there was I had my Trio preamp going through a Boogie 295 power amp into a couple of Boogie Black Shadow speaker cabs and I was switching between that setup and the Fender Twin . |
| 15 | I was compensated to some extent by the magnificent scenery . |
| 16 | I was listening to weird stuff like Iron Butterfly when I was , like , still learning my alphabet ! |
| 17 | So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’ |
| 18 | It was really funny I was listening to this story , it was about a toyboy |
| 19 | I was listening to this island disc this morning and erm |
| 20 | stuff I was listening to this morning I do n't whether that was one of the things but she 's certainly looking at areas like that . |
| 21 | Since well before I was elected to this House , I have pressed for the provision of secure accommodation to end the scandal of young offenders and remand prisoners in particular being held in prison accommodation . |
| 22 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 23 | I was dressed in red leather riding gear and red boots and sweating a lot despite the air-conditioning . |
| 24 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 25 | On one occasion I was breaking in new territory in Lincolnshire and my fellow ‘ artiste ’ — a male singer who shall remain nameless — moved in on me . |
| 26 | I was sent to Nongkhai province in the North East of Thailand on the Maekhong River across from the capital of Laos . |
| 27 | When we got back from Majorca , I was sent to another school for a year , and then I took the so-called eleven-plus examination . |
| 28 | I was born with this haircut . |
| 29 | I was born on central Island as I said . |
| 30 | If I was born in that period , I would be dead already , and you would n't need to listen to me But if you look at this as far as the medical profession and the insurance profession need each other , what happened to these people when they develop an infective condition ? |