Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 2 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 3 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 4 | ‘ I was sent out on some ridiculous calls at Christmas , ’ said Mr Hunsley . |
| 5 | I was thrown out by some irate trendy who kept muttering something about royalties . |
| 6 | I was taken out to another room , sat down and then heard that thick voice , full of soft , sickly fruit . |
| 7 | And I would have said , Ray , please I was brought up with this , and it 's vulgar to discuss money over the telephone , erm , you know do n't dream of paying me anything , I 'm just ever so grateful for the opportunity . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
| 9 | I did , so I was creeping up like this |
| 10 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home . |
| 12 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 13 | Mm , yeah but I was coming out at half past nine |
| 14 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 15 | and she was arched over like this , yeah , and they were getting off and she went for his belt yeah and she was gon na undo his belt and Jules went Laura Laura not now , you know , just do n't undo my belt . |
| 16 | She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh . |
| 17 | When she emerged from the tunnel , she was hemmed in on either side by wooden fences . |
| 18 | The war came , she was swept up with many others by the Germans and ended up in Ravensbrück concentration camp . |
| 19 | But now , fallen from her cabin , she was cut off from all understanding , and had no strength to kick against the darkness that had come down around her . |
| 20 | When it happened , when she was pulled out like this , she felt sick , giddy and unbalanced . |
| 21 | She was wearing a green school coat that was too big for her , so that her little pink hands stuck out all chubby from the sleeves , and she was weighed down with all sorts of rubbish — a shiny brown leather satchel , and a shoe-bag with a bunch of roses embroidered on it , and a hockey-stick . |
| 22 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 23 | Great skill would have to be exercised , Lavender told herself , and great secrecy observed if she was to come out of this exploit alive . |
| 24 | The first time we went , Marie wore her bra and knickers , but she was told off for that , so she bought this real nice swimming costume . |
| 25 | She was carrying on with some lawyer . ’ |
| 26 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 27 | So we was brought up in that atmosphere . |
| 28 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 29 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 30 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |