Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 2 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 3 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 4 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 5 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 6 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 7 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |
| 8 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 9 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 10 | The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book . |
| 11 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 13 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 14 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 15 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 16 | The ‘ New Style ’ Calendar was adopted in Britain in 1752 but not without some opposition from some who thought they were losing several days of their life . |
| 17 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 18 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |
| 19 | In the whole , as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate . |
| 20 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 21 | You said they were building another garage did n't you ? |
| 22 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |
| 23 | Although Univel claimed its strategy remained unchanged , it also said it was putting more emphasis on the desktop , the Microsoft stronghold where NT is likely to be stronger than it is in Unix 's bailiwick , the server . |
| 24 | The shooting took place in the Highfield Estate off the Shankill Road and local people said he was hit several times in the head by gunmen who sped from the scene in a car . |