Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later .
3 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
4 I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity .
5 And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me .
6 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 .
7 And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time
11 It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ?
12 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 .
13 Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class
14 I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests .
15 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 .
16 We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave .
17 After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food .
18 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
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 And I was going ten minutes .
22 And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 bloody hell Rac I tell you what I saw Rachael today and she was looking right fat and all , it , it 's just
26 She had a past history of Crohn 's disease which was quiescent and she was taking oral contraceptives .
27 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 .
28 Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania
29 HER FORMAL SCHOOLING HAD ENDED AND SHE WAS ATTENDING SECRETARIAL COLLEGE .
30 I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket .
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