Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she was given considerable powers , and had to be consulted by LEAs over their general development plans and any specific proposals to establish , close or alter schools ( this changed under the 1980 Act ) . |
| 2 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 3 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 4 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 5 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 6 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 7 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 8 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 9 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 10 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 11 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 12 | It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ? |
| 13 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 14 | Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class |
| 15 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 16 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 17 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 18 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 19 | The first time I ever got it I what do you want me to do and he said right run across there and I 'd run now punch it , and I 'd be punching the you 'd be jumping and turning round , I could n't get the right one , and finally punch it and the would be coming , said quick hit that and I was getting all sort of |
| 20 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 21 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 22 | And I was going ten minutes . |
| 23 | And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for . |
| 24 | Further results showed that her immunoglobulins were low , particularly IgG with a value of 5.11 g/l , and she was given intravenous immunoglobulin ( Gammimmune-N , 25 g ) to aid her recovery . |
| 25 | Lawyers for her husband contested her action in the High Court in London on Wednesday and she was given seven days to hand them back . |
| 26 | bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just |
| 27 | She had a past history of Crohn 's disease which was quiescent and she was taking oral contraceptives . |
| 28 | In her wisdom she seemed to be aware of the delicacy of the situation and she was taking great care not to say anything to embarrass her companion . |
| 29 | Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania |
| 30 | HER FORMAL SCHOOLING HAD ENDED AND SHE WAS ATTENDING SECRETARIAL COLLEGE . |