Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sergeant Morris and I were trying to stop the bleeding when you came . ’ |
| 2 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 3 | On condition that we both covered our heads , Olivia and I were invited to watch the proceedings from the rear of the crowd . |
| 4 | If I were invited to make a criticism of primary school teachers within an international setting it would be to suggest that our expectation of children 's ability is too low . |
| 5 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |
| 6 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
| 7 | Besides , Leith and I were planning to take a walk . ’ |
| 8 | From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside . |
| 9 | Inevitably I was destined to become a zoologist in later life . |
| 10 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 11 | When I went to Beverley on Easter Sunday 1987 I was invited to join the choristers on the roof . |
| 12 | In the middle of these difficulties I was invited to visit the Chicago headquarters of Binks Manufacturing ( Binks Bullows 's parent company ) to negotiate selling the machine to the US . |
| 13 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 14 | For me , the moment of realisation that something more must be done to identify the aggressor and to hold him to account came last week , when I was invited to open an exhibition of photographs at the building centre in Store street , London , of some of the Croatian buildings destroyed over the past few months . |
| 15 | A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter . |
| 16 | Some weeks after returning from my exploits in Alaska and Siberia , I was invited to give a lecture on the trip to the Overseas League meeting in the Empress Hotel , Victoria . |
| 17 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 18 | In 1989 I was invited to become a member of Academia Europaea ( European Academy ) . |
| 19 | It was as a result of this withdrawal that I was invited to write the paper ( Currie , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Seeing my interest was now aroused , I was invited to try the unit myself on a day 's diving . |
| 21 | Shortly after I left the public sector again , I was invited to chair a seminar at the Civil Service Staff College at Sunningdale comparing being an accounting officer in the Civil Service and being chairman of a public company and appearing before an annual general meeting . |
| 22 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 23 | I was called to make a statement and later found that I had won the medal . |
| 24 | I was tempted to use the quay , but did n't . |
| 25 | Years later , when I heard that Inez had left her husband and that the police were investigating her disappearance , I was tempted to carry the matter a little further . |
| 26 | In attempting to answer this question , I was tempted to follow the Economist and define services as : ‘ anything sold in trade that could not be dropped on your foot ’ . |
| 27 | In particular , I was stimulated to exhume a cutting from the Daily Telegraph of 23 October 1980 . |
| 28 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 29 | So I was delegated to broach the subject with Paul Coleman . |
| 30 | Richards , 40 , said : ‘ I was flattered to receive the offer , but morally I could not accept . |