Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
| 2 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 3 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 4 | K. R. At Garston , there was a toilet on the main road and when we were on nights , and there was one officer walking along and I was on the other side — we dare n't cross the road . |
| 5 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 6 | I 've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages . |
| 7 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 8 | ‘ Answer me , ’ he thundered , and she shivered ; her pleasant , familiar room had become a battlefield , and she was on the losing side . |
| 9 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 10 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 11 | At the start of the campaign for nomination , Carter had two great disadvantages : he was practically unknown outside Georgia , and he was from the deep South . |
| 12 | Of course , your coach is Clive Woodward and he was in the grand slam winning side of nineteen eighty was n't he ? |
| 13 | And another time he went quiet and he was in the front room and when I went in he was chewing the leg of the settee |
| 14 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 15 | They met at Cornell University , where she was a social work student and he was in the agricultural department . |
| 16 | The doctor said the baby was a nice size and he was in the right position . |
| 17 | Philip Brooks was director of Holy Trinity church in Philadelphia , erm on , and he was in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty five , and he stood in a field outside Bethlehem where the shepherds were supposed to have received the annunciation , and thought of the beginning of O Little Town of Bethlehem . |
| 18 | Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions . |
| 19 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 20 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 21 | He , that is a photo opportunity that Gerry Addams took and it was on the front page of everybody 's newspaper . |
| 22 | But it was the same deep gorge — and it was on the other side of the lake ! |
| 23 | Charles married his second cousin , Blanche , sister of the French king , and it was on the Parisian model that he founded the University of Prague in 1348 . |
| 24 | It was on the playing fields that he had excelled , and had felt most at home , and it was on the playing fields that he now spent the afternoon . |
| 25 | but they were all and it was on the safe side , whatever happened . |
| 26 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 27 | He kept the Wharfedale Inn where most of the cricketers met and it was in the front room of that establishment that the idea was developed . |
| 28 | The northern parts of the empire were , however , under customary laws still , and it was in the Eastern Empire under the Emperor Justinian that most of the advances were made . |
| 29 | And the Royal Welch did sing in the rehearsal , it was a record of course , and they sang of what you could see from the hills above Jerusalem , and it was in the minor key and sad as the devil or death , and the green light flickered , and Dylan , short , bandy , prime , obese , and famous among the bars , screamed as I have never heard , but sometimes imagined a scream , and we were all appalled , our pencils silent above the crossword puzzles , and invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our backs . |
| 30 | Here was the bond : it was the provinces , not London society , which were peopling America and it was in the mushrooming towns of industrial England that Nonconformity was strongest . |