Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [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 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 5 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 6 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 7 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 8 | In a development that highlighted Rosyth 's struggle to survive , the MoD last night confirmed it was giving serious consideration to an attempt by Devonport to poach a £28 million ship refitting contract already awarded to the Fife yard . |
| 9 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 10 | The Marquis still faces charges of dodging taxi fares , but the case was adjourned after a court heard he was receiving psychiatric treatment . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 12 | The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book . |
| 13 | I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 16 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 17 | Sweeping waves of desire were pitching Sarella headlong to the point where she knew she was leaving common sense behind . |
| 18 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He suddenly felt he was facing impossible odds . |
| 21 | You felt he was registering unfavourable impressions " . |
| 22 | Apart from the political overtones and undertones , Nicholson knew he was breaking new ground with one specific sex scene in which he showed full-frontal nudity and a fairly complete filming of the sex act itself , still unheard of in the movies , in spite of the musical Hair . |
| 23 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 24 | Jasper knew he was allowed extreme latitude in almost everything he did . |
| 25 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought he was designing better places for people to live . ’ |
| 27 | Last month , the Post Office announced it was shedding 15,000 jobs . |
| 28 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |
| 29 | In June , BAe Space Systems , a British Aerospace subsidiary that makes communication satellites , announced it was cutting 640 jobs as part of a rationalisation scheme . |
| 30 | LAST WEEK 'S Parliamentary debate on the funding of science took place on the day the Science and Engineering Research Council announced it was cutting next year 's budget by £28 million . |