Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I was unprepared , lacking a condom , she and I were endangered from two directions in another sense also : from disease ( for we were strangers to each other ) , and from a pregnancy desired by neither of us . |
| 2 | Barbara and I were interviewed by one team upstairs in the top bar . |
| 3 | I eased the wheel up , drawing Wavebreaker 's bows harder into the sea and wind , and I was rewarded with another shattering of white spray that exploded prettily about our bows before I let the hull fall away once more . |
| 4 | Do you know when I went out to the maths thing I was waiting for , I was there and I was heard about these forgotten a calculator ! |
| 5 | The ambulance came and I was filled with delicious brandy but was instantly sick when I got to Imtarfa Hospital . |
| 6 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 7 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 8 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 9 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 10 | My mother called an usherette to have me removed , and I was handed into strange-smelling arms behind a bright beam that dazzled me . |
| 11 | And then joined so he joined the army , and I was left with this bicycle , and a friend of mine said , How about coming with us on Sunday , you can skip chapel this Sunday , and we 'll go out er we 're going into Derbyshire , and I finished up on Ack 's Edge . |
| 12 | he were ever so good and I was told about all these |
| 13 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 14 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 15 | The one unshaded light bulb shone continuously down at her , and she was kept in complete silence . |
| 16 | Three of her ten books were about Ireland and she was honoured in 1904 with an honorary D.Litt. from Dublin University . |
| 17 | She considered her fear , and with it the probability that before long Johnny would find her again , and she was shaken by unreasoning panic . |
| 18 | Her bright hair was hidden under a sunhat , and she was disguised with dark glasses , but no one had shown the slightest interest in her . |
| 19 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 20 | She delighted in visitors and she was moved by all their woes and troubles . |
| 21 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 22 | Ken complained to her employers , and she was put on another round , but kept forgetting the orders and was presently let go . |
| 23 | But it turned out to be three and she was put in this an awkward position and she does n't know what to do , the poor girl who got picked ! |
| 24 | And there was a lady in the , in his congregation he preached to masses , to thousands and thousands of people , and she came to him , she was , she was annoyed , she was a rather er , well-to-do lady , and she was offended at this this preaching that she had to be born again , and that people had to have this new birth experience . |
| 25 | No evidence was offered against her and she was discharged after several remands . |
| 26 | In fact a month before her death , Leonie was treated at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon … but that was for a kidny infection , not the psychiatric treatment she needed for her annorexia nervosa … and she was released after four days . |
| 27 | One mother described how her daughter was locked up and she was raped by three drunk , uniformed men whom she knew . |
| 28 | On Friday her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to another hospital , ’ he said . |
| 29 | On Friday her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to another hospital , ’ he said . |
| 30 | And we were called into this long room at the erm it was at House at and er there was all these well I considered them to be old men , they could n't have been so old you see but I was only a boy . |