Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I was delivering one of Mark Phillips ' calves , ’ he said indignantly . |
| 32 | Having assisted an old woman at a zebra crossing , I was granted three wishes . |
| 33 | I was drinking seven [ seven ? ] bottles of wine a day . |
| 34 | As I was leaving one of the doctors said : ‘ Do n't think this is over . |
| 35 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
| 36 | ‘ June 1980 , I was pushing 20 and part of Orange Juice , an early stone Roses prototype whose return to music was the resolve for a bad Seventies hangover . |
| 37 | ‘ No — I was riding one long before the environment was heard of . |
| 38 | I just noticed I was reading one of these er incidentally I mentioned about British Gas er this is the one that they give all their . |
| 39 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 40 | I was earning 4 colones a day when the cost of a kilo of meat was between 2 or 3 colones . |
| 41 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 42 | what the what the pay is now here is what I was earning three years to four years ago |
| 43 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 44 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 45 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 46 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 47 | Cos I was on the afternoon shift and as I told you I was getting twenty five bob a day . |
| 48 | Well when I left there , and joined the army , I was getting twenty seven shillings a week . |
| 49 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 50 | in the morning , half one to four o'clock , I was getting three pound an hour |
| 51 | I was getting forty and I got up to ninety four . |
| 52 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 53 | I was taking 40-50 jellies a day — £75 worth . |
| 54 | In fact , when I joined the party in 1967 , I was charged six shillings for my annual subscription . |
| 55 | Okay , I was expecting twelve , but ten out of twelve 's not bad , so I 'll start . |
| 56 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 57 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 58 | For considerable amounts of time , I was paying five or six salaries . |
| 59 | And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for . |
| 60 | Within weeks I was paying 25 per cent commission . |