Example sentences of "and [pron] was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When the dance ended and everyone was standing in clusters , sweating and smiling and breathing heavily , he sang out in a high voice with a laugh in it — |
| 2 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 3 | And I was born at Thorn House in Birkleigh . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Edward was born in London and I was born in Russia . |
| 5 | Well plainly erm whatever the er Yorkshire people may think and I was born in Nottinghamshire , erm that it is you know you can not say it is absolutely unique . |
| 6 | I felt fear at this moment but it passed and I was calmed in thought when the sensation passed . |
| 7 | A neighbour sent for us to take shelter in a basement further along the street , and I was dragged along Arthur Street . |
| 8 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 9 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 10 | They took me over to Cheapside and I was remanded in custody . |
| 11 | and I was sent to Margate with my Mum . |
| 12 | We were living here and there , and I was looking for investors , so we gave a care-of-Cook 's address . |
| 13 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 14 | I was thinking about Nour and Marie Claire , and I was thinking about Syl and Mrs Monro . |
| 15 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 16 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 17 | And I was speaking to Elaine today erm , over at Queensway , who , who I used to work with and erm , her erm nephew , ne niece |
| 18 | While waiting for the call-up , various opportunities or openings of an official nature came my way , and I was summoned for interview , usually at extremely short notice , in connection with some of them . |
| 19 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 20 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 21 | I was posted to the er ack-ack brigade and I was posted to Norwich , just at Norwich , Coldershaw really . |
| 22 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 23 | On the sixth one it was like this sort of year and I was getting into Christmas and that . |
| 24 | Both Benjamin and I were lost in our own thoughts and I was mystified by Agrippa 's revelations . |
| 25 | ‘ She discovered a problem with a blood test and I was admitted to hospital . ’ |
| 26 | Erm Ian left that with me and I was to speak to Bob before Bob gave it to because it was n't very good . |
| 27 | I only have a pound left and I was paid on Friday and that is because I bought food and very basic toiletries . |
| 28 | He was the star , and I was billed below Yvette Mimieux and American football player Jim Brown . |
| 29 | Mum just wrapped her up , rang the ambulance , and I was taken to hospital . |
| 30 | And I was taken into hospital and it was an ulcer and the depression disappeared after that . |