Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] was [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Seems to me I was Jobs are hard , the were n't like secure jobs . |
2 | ‘ A midwife went through it all with me and I actually asked her to reassure me that nothing I was doing could harm my own baby , ’ she remembers . |
3 | I 'm a 13-handicap golfer but to them I was Jack Nicklaus , Nick Faldo and God all rolled into one . |
4 | No , I took it home , I I was sort of leaving that to you you know , as you say , as you 've just mentioned now that , but no , I thought when you first of you said have n't got the time to put these all the layers of on , you know and |
5 | It broke 'er 'eart when 'e told 'er 'e was orf ter India . ’ |
6 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
7 | The school at which I was CFI taught leaning in Exercise 4 and throughout the PPL course . |
8 | In addition I have learnt an enormous amount from the monthly meetings of the Education Network in London , of which I was Coordinator from 1983 to 1987 . |
9 | A significant change has taken place in the wording of the statement , on this particular issue , from the original nineteen ninety draft of which was produced by the working party of which I was convenor . |
10 | Aye well you see there was a a local departmental committee , of which I was the employees ' employees ' side , of which I was secretary . |
11 | In the early 1970s the ILEA commissioned an in depth report into the school of which I was headteacher . |
12 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
13 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
14 | This idea of Elena as the colleague in leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu led the poet , Ion Gheorghe , to conjure up a mystical vision of Elena as part of a ‘ trinity ’ , whose ‘ three dimensions ’ were Nicolae Ceauşescu , herself and the fatherland , of which she was mother . |
15 | Love , if he deluded himself it was love , could n't exist on air . |
16 | Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws . |
17 | One by one the modest properties of which he was landlord in County Mayo and Galway began to show a satisfactory return . |
18 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
19 | A year or two later I was best man at the Braden-Kelly wedding which was performed by Bernie 's father , the Rev. Dr. E.D. Braden at the Kerrisdale United Church of which he was minister . |
20 | In 1870 he established what became the Workmen 's Peace Association of which he was secretary . |
21 | He was the founder in 1864 of the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society and , with the aid of public subscriptions , responsible for the building of the Liverpool Institute for the Adult Deaf and Dumb , of which he was Secretary for sixty years . |
22 | He helped establish the Liverpool Medical Society ( of which he was secretary from 1833 and president 1836–8 ) and also the Liverpool Medical Institution ( becoming in 1840 its first secretary ) . |
23 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
24 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
25 | This he did by hard work , love for cricket and an exceptional organizing ability , which in 1953 resulted in the founding of the Danish Cricket Association of which he was chairman for 18 years . |
26 | One was the peremptory sacking of Cecil King in 1968 by the Mirror Group board , of which he was chairman . |
27 | Other national platforms for his views and activities were the Council of Church Missioners to the Deaf and Dumb , of which he was chairman from 1927 for eighteen years ; the Central Advisory Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb on which he served for forty-four years , and the Joint Examination Board ( later renamed " The Deaf Welfare Examination Board " ) of which he was a founder member . |
28 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
29 | He emerged as a wine merchant in Pall Mall ; respectability and civic office came by way of his membership of the Vintners ' Company , of which he was master in 1768 . |
30 | Written with insight and affection for the Master Musicians series ( of which he was editor ) , it remained in print for over fifty years . |