Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was really pumped up for this one , I was even doing chin-ups on my bed last night . |
| 2 | ‘ I was just congratulating Jack on his round , ’ Dad said . |
| 3 | " I was just telling Pat about his mother . " |
| 4 | I was just playing bass in my bedroom before I joined The Lost Pandas , ’ he says . |
| 5 | I was also sent details of a most interesting menu served at a banquet for Prince Charles and the Prince 's Youth Business Trust held in Warwick Castle . |
| 6 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 7 | I was literally breaking things over my head . |
| 8 | I was always called stick-in-the-mud by one of my masters . |
| 9 | The last tour , I had so much stuff and I was always having trouble with it breaking down and having to troubleshoot . |
| 10 | It was a cheap alternative to buying from local merchants , but I was only allowed access to the provisions at points of safety such as towns and wells . |
| 11 | You 'd be right , of course : Citroens which have lost the use of their hydropneumatic systems are sorry beasts , best taken to one side and shot in the neck ; and I 'll admit I was once charged £300 for a new water pump for a CX model , but this is no reason to dismiss them . |
| 12 | I only left the house when I was sure she was well taken care of . |
| 13 | She was also undergoing tests for suspected glaucoma . |
| 14 | Yet by doing so she was also making difficulties for herself . |
| 15 | She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful . |
| 16 | It was a Militant councillor who found her alternative accommodation where she was later to give birth to her daughter , Claire . |
| 17 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
| 18 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 19 | She was still taking medication after her breast cancer operation but she seemed to be on top form and very bubbly and full of plans for the future . |
| 20 | Besides , although she was still finding life at Levantiére exciting , it was also exhausting . |
| 21 | She was detested below stairs because she was forever carrying tales concerning the shortcomings of the rest of the staff . |
| 22 | She was always giving orders to Kamala , who had to obey . |
| 23 | In what was presented as action to protect its foreign exchange reserves ( which had fallen to $5,600 million according to government sources ) the government on July 5 , 1989 , informed the " Paris Club " group of creditors that it was temporarily deferring payment of $812,000,000 in interest which had been due on June 30 and July 3 . |
| 24 | For me it was fundamentally feeling part of a community , a word we did n't use in those days . |
| 25 | Where he did intervene in public , it was generally to lend support to ‘ legal ’ discriminatory measures — for the most part popular and meeting with widespread approval — excluding Jews from German society and the economy . |
| 26 | Personally I thought it was just to draw attention to herself . ’ |
| 27 | Just lovely And was no broken again it was just standing kind of like , Really made a good job . |
| 28 | It was already showing strength in the exit polls , and may now be boosted by a sympathy vote . |
| 29 | We did not see the signal as it was fast approaching time for our departure from York , but just before we left Mr Hopkin he informed us that there were also tickets , buttons , maybe som small brass fittings , an 1864 rail chair and possibly the original chimney of Carlisle from before her 1924 heavy overhaul . |
| 30 | If this analysis is correct , then although many ‘ working class ’ people continued to think of the Labour Party as ‘ their ’ party in some vague sense , it was actually losing contact with their day-to-day political concerns and subsequently losing active working class support at a local level . |