Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 2 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 3 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 4 | One night my mother , my father and I were sitting in the dining room . |
| 5 | And I always think back to the er the time I think Edmund and I were sitting in the back garden here and deciding that we 'd go off and join the paratroopers |
| 6 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 7 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 8 | My name is Aled Pierce and I was born in the on November the eighth nineteen ten . |
| 9 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 10 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 11 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 13 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 14 | Two years after that , when he had saved enough money , my Mum went as well and I was left in the care of my grandmother , Anita Morrison . |
| 15 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 16 | It was half-past — two in the morning and I was sitting in the front passenger seat in dad 's Cortina while my sister Jean , who was driving , sent it hurtling down the road towards Carlisle . |
| 17 | And you were standing in the hall way ? |
| 18 | So you can , so you got a promotion and you were working in the Navy when you came |
| 19 | And she were living in the parks . |
| 20 | You 'd need a few more clues to establish her Oxford connections … but in fact she was a student here at Somerville College , winning a first class degree … and she was born in the city , here at Brewer Street . |
| 21 | All aboard and she was nodding in the sardine swelter on seats so narrow you could lose your virtue and never miss it . |
| 22 | Diktynna 's name links her with Mount Dikte , and she was portrayed in the classical period as a mountain mother . |
| 23 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 24 | Anyway , Mrs Sugar died , and she was buried in the cemetery , and had an angel on her grave . |
| 25 | Anyway , Mrs Sugar died , and she was buried in the cemetery , and had an angel on her grave . |
| 26 | There was no room service and we were breakfasting in the hotel dining-room at a table looking out on to a square adorned by several yuccas and some dusty oleanders . |
| 27 | It was a windy autumn day and we were standing in the market place . |
| 28 | In addition to these structural changes — and they were to continue in the 1970s and 1980s with Channel Four and TV-am , to say nothing of cable systems and satellite broadcasting — the underlying philosophy of broadcasting was being increasingly and powerfully challenged . |
| 29 | They had apparently exhausted all the games that a four-year-old could invent , and they were shivering in the wind as they considered exploring the world on the other side of the road . |
| 30 | And they were stored in the back in the back shop store , you see ? |