Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fortnight ago , I was invited to a meeting of Somali refugees in East Ham town hall . |
| 2 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |
| 3 | I used to wonder what on earth people found to talk about for so long , and on the occasion when I was called to a neighbour 's telephone in Baldersdale , I was so uneasy that someone had to hold it to my ear . |
| 4 | About three years ago , I was called to a bread commercial : Windmill Bread . |
| 5 | I was called to a house and there was a man in agony . |
| 6 | When I went to Highlander I was looking for a way which could help towards more effective participation and the development of better non-formal opportunities in adult education on social issues which affect communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 7 | I was looking for a way out into the aisle . |
| 8 | I was looking for a man named Tom Tunney , a washed-out writer and a deep-dyed drunk . |
| 9 | ‘ I was looking for a bird 's nest to show Tory , Mummy . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was looking for a hiding place for some stupid necklace I 'd bought , and the bureau was the nearest thing to hand ! ’ |
| 11 | Nobody had heard of Rosie O'Dell ; I was looking for a needle in a haystack . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I decided to take the part I was looking for a role that was the opposite of my character Dylan . |
| 13 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |
| 14 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 15 | For I was looking for a job I was newly married in nineteen thirty six make a pound or two . |
| 16 | The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row . |
| 17 | ‘ I was looking for a sounding board and that 's what I 've got . ’ |
| 18 | I was looking for a business venture worthy of my silver , some trade across the Narrow Seas or perhaps commerce with the Baltic . |
| 19 | ‘ I was looking for a business niche and the idea really took off , ’ said Mrs Spence . |
| 20 | I was looking for a book on how people make them . ’ |
| 21 | And occasionally if I was looking for a magazine to buy , it would get a lot of i good information in it too . |
| 22 | I was looking about a lot . |
| 23 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 24 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 25 | I was looking at a picture of Stapleton 's face . |
| 26 | ‘ I was looking at a muzzle shooting at me and I was quite content . |
| 27 | This could be made in either double jacquard or Fair Isle and I was inspired by a sweater in very subtle colours worn by Iris Bishop ( not for once , one of her own creations ! ) . |
| 28 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 29 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 30 | One night I was joined by a visitor to Seend , anxious to be of help , Colonel Faithorne , who was some relation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and who showed intellectual interests , including a knowledge of Eliot , which I was not to meet again in a soldier until I made the acquaintance in 1974 of my late father-in-law . |