Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of this incident I was patrol inspector at . |
| 2 | I was night work , till I retired . |
| 3 | I was night relief nurse in Hope , a women 's acute medical ward , and tonight was one of the rare nights when all three Hope night nurses were on together . |
| 4 | Anyway that 's what that was the time when I was sea sick , when we come across the channel . |
| 5 | When I was Defence Secretary and , to my shame , trying to sell tanks to King Idris in Libya , I was pretty sure that he 'd be overthrown in an army coup , and I tried to identify the colonel who was likely to be the leader of the coup . |
| 6 | My daughter told me that I was chrome yellow , and a glance in the mirror proved her right . |
| 7 | ‘ I was art director of Rolling Stone for about two minutes ’ , says Marchbank . |
| 8 | ‘ I was spending money creatively ; I made a contribution to the family restaurant market , which is still in place , and which enabled people to have a very good value meal in enjoyable surroundings , for less money . |
| 9 | I found that I was spending money every day . |
| 10 | ( I was Deputy Chief Inspector at the time and privy to the discussions and proposals relating to the investigation . ) |
| 11 | I was part way across a basin between two outcrops of rock . |
| 12 | So I was shop steward for there , for one year and a half and er eventually because of the row between the workers , myself and er the management , er although we , we obtained a lot of facilities for the workers , a lot of facilities . |
| 13 | And then we used to play games with him and we were going to invent a game that did n't exist because whatever you said , Mr Brynner always said , ‘ Well , as a matter of fact I was world champion pistol shot , ’ or ‘ I 'm the world champion ’ of whatever it was you mentioned . |
| 14 | ‘ I was world number one and I did n't have a clue about life . ’ |
| 15 | He and I had met in Birmingham , Alabama , while he was news director of WBRC-TV and I was news director of WSGN radio . |
| 16 | As for my room , well , if I was Jimmy Page I would definitely say ‘ Too rococo ’ . |
| 17 | Within weeks , I was features editor , had met Bon Jovi , grown my shifty Morrissey quiff out and got on the Music For Nations mailing list forever . |
| 18 | I was chain smoking again . |
| 19 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 20 | I mean for years when I was young I was jet black and that was lovely . |
| 21 | You see , my day rate , then , of course I was piece work , but my day rate then would be er er two pound twelve and six pence . |
| 22 | took off and I was circle ground , it was quite a windy day then this stood there with me , had no control over the thing , like ! |
| 23 | ‘ I 'eard 'e was orf work wiv 'is back . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Jardine , now , when 'e was Surrey captain … ‘ |
| 25 | and a choice of two deserts , which was treacle pudding or some , whatever else it was ! |
| 26 | Vehicle , which was 50% glycerol , 50% 0.05 mol/l phosphate buffer containing 0.5 mol/l NaCl , was present at a dilution of 1:400 in both experimental and control flasks . |
| 27 | Eventually the H.H. & B.R. passed into the hands of the Midland Railway though Eardisley station also served a branch northwards which was G.W.R. territory . |
| 28 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 29 | At the eastern end of the Brentford Road was Stamford Brook Lane , turning northward and Chiswick Lane leading southward to Mawson Lane and the riverside houses opposite to the Eyot ( or Ait ) , in turn leading back to St. Nicholas Church , Fishermen 's Place and Church Street , at the other end of which was Pages Yard and Lord Burlington 's Lane , with Chiswick Square on the south side and Hogarth Lane extending from that end of Mawson Lane , linking Little Sutton with that area via Barrowgate Lane . |
| 30 | He reached ground level unharmed and , discounting the thought of trying to retrieve his car from the courtyard , headed off towards the street most heavily trafficked at this time of night , which was Kennington Park Road . |