Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lost in Sir Anthony 's wonderful story . |
| 2 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 3 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 4 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 5 | I was born in Tatlock Street at the back of the Gem Cinema . |
| 6 | But I erm I was born in West Norwood , nes , wo West Norwood but where John Major took you to last night on his tour |
| 7 | But I was born in New York . ’ |
| 8 | Yes I was born in Newton Abbott |
| 9 | In 1978 , on the 21st June , I was born in Ipswich Maternity hospital . |
| 10 | I was born in South London in 1955 , the fourth child and a twin . |
| 11 | Well where I was born in Needham Market |
| 12 | I was born in South Africa . |
| 13 | Perhaps some other Allens lived next door in Marathon Avenue or perhaps I was born in Victoria Road . |
| 14 | I was born in Gran Canaria in the city of Las Palmas , which is the administrative centre of the Canary Islands . |
| 15 | I was born in County Down which is in Ulster and that makes me officially a British citizen . |
| 16 | O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was born in St Petersburg and worked all my life as an engineer . |
| 18 | ‘ I was living in Gambler Terrace , Liverpool 8 and signing on the dole . |
| 19 | ‘ When I was living in New Hampshire , ’ he said , ‘ about half my friends , many of whom had no connection with the building industry , built their own houses . |
| 20 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 21 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 22 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 23 | In the afternoon we drove to Delhi , where I was accommodated in Claridges Hotel . |
| 24 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 25 | ‘ Earlier in my career I was working in hotel kitchens all the hours God sent , and the pay was very low . |
| 26 | A few years later Enright came to see me when I was working in Kuala Lumpur and he was Professor in Singapore . |
| 27 | I was working in brother Louis 's printing works . |
| 28 | Look at the facts : she was seen in Alexandra Road at 11.15 , the very time at which Gerald found the yard door barred against him . |
| 29 | She was born in County Cork in 1914 , the youngest of the six children of Major JB Arbuthnot and his wife Olive Blake . |
| 30 | She was elected in April Lecturer in Statistics at London University ( Wye College ) . |