Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously I was learning new things all the time and each day we built on what we had learned the day before . |
| 2 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 3 | So I was having little joy with the fine slub yarns in different colours . |
| 4 | But apparently it was stolen last week . |
| 5 | Of all the men in Chung Kuo , only he was allowed this richness , this lifelong measure of perfection . |
| 6 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 7 | He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 . |
| 8 | Jed drove north to begin with , his wrist a rectangle of heat and all that numbness just behind his eyes , but after two days the roads drew him inland , over high mountains , and soon he was heading due west . |
| 9 | Little danger as there was of another martyrdom , there was even less chance of the clergy satisfying their grievances at Edward 's expense : the most significant thing about the legislation of May 1341 is how easily it was repealed five months later . |
| 10 | I mean presumably you was born this side of the river ? |
| 11 | All at once she was wishing that Desmond was with her . |
| 12 | and like she was pointing different things out about this cemetery , and , I mean , you know , you there ca n't be many cemeteries |
| 13 | At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Robert Sheldon , chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee , said yesterday he was seeking more documents from the Department of Trade after Monday 's hearing when he cross-examined Sir Peter Gregson , the permanent secretary at the ministry . |
| 15 | The chairman of the committee , Mr Robert Sheldon , said yesterday he was awaiting detailed answers from the DTI to questions posed on Monday during his committee 's examination of its permanent secretary . |
| 16 | Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere . |
| 17 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 18 | Later I was to find this sort of coincidence recurring . |
| 19 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 20 | later he was fed minute amounts of donor milk from the milk bank by a nasal-gastric tube , just 1ml an hour at first . |
| 21 | Three months later he was crowned German King at Bonn . |
| 22 | Now I was making ten shillings a week , and I had to pay a penny toll every day to come to from office . |
| 23 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 24 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 25 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 26 | But he was a a reformed now he was helping other people ge get away from pinching cars like in a they have like |
| 27 | Amery was convinced of the need to introduce a scheme of family allowance even if , in the interest of economy , it was limited to third and subsequent children ; and now he was finding more support for that view from the Conservative benches as well as from other parties . |
| 28 | Tragically he was killed five days later in a third attempt . |
| 29 | Well I was reading that article in the Sunday Times with you and the chap who 's the champion said he liked it because it 's like chess and bridge . |
| 30 | Er well I was doing all kinds really there was a staff then and of servants but I was lo I was er looking after the old lady more than anything . |