Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 fed up with English filmmakers who seemed to think that they were automatically entitled to have a film industry ’ Michael Powell has remarked of the situation in the late 1930s . |
| 6 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 7 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 8 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 9 | Can I say that , when I was interviewed for the job of er , Director , or I was asked along with other applicants , to put forward a er paper presenting my issues and concerns , and I can say to you , equal opportunities was a key one there . |
| 10 | I was thrown out by some irate trendy who kept muttering something about royalties . |
| 11 | I was taken out to another room , sat down and then heard that thick voice , full of soft , sickly fruit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
| 15 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
| 16 | I was brought up in oblivious paganism , but school introduced two services a day , Scripture several times a week and Bible class with theological criticism and the occasional lecture on Pilgrims Progress as a special treat . |
| 17 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
| 18 | Then there I was come back from ante-natal and it was blown clean away . |
| 19 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 20 | I thought wryly of the days , not many years before , when I was holed up in one dark room on the wrong side of town . |
| 21 | I was let out between eight and half-past in the morning , locked back in at dinner time , let out to do the washing up and scrub the kitchen floor in the afternoon , and then locked up again . |
| 22 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 23 | I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy . |
| 24 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 25 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But the 77-year-old victim , who said she was pushed around by two youngsters aged about ten , has requested a younger blind person benefits from the dog . |
| 28 | When she emerged from the tunnel , she was hemmed in on either side by wooden fences . |
| 29 | The war came , she was swept up with many others by the Germans and ended up in Ravensbrück concentration camp . |
| 30 | She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too . |