Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I was advising people on unit trust things it was always the price of your units may rise and , as well as fall . |
| 2 | And I was cooking fish and chips when the siren went , and I had to turn the gas off and now they 're ruined , and I do n't know what else we 're going to have for supper … |
| 3 | Anyway I was given sixpence , fourpence for the papers and tuppence for myself . |
| 4 | I was earning £18 a week at the time and Caroline 's father , a twinkle in his eye , wanted to know if I thought that was enough to live on . |
| 5 | By the time I got to Python I was getting £240 a week . |
| 6 | Recently , I was charged £1.45 for a ‘ cornetto-type ’ and a choc ice . |
| 7 | If I was spending £500-ish on amplification , I 'd be looking for good second-hand gear , and there 's loads of that about . |
| 8 | I was spending £2 or £3 a day on chocolate . |
| 9 | In 1945 I was paid £6 a week . |
| 10 | ‘ I was paid £3 10s , and I did n't deserve it that night . |
| 11 | ‘ I was paid £3 10s a week , and worked on Saturday mornings , ’ he said as he bowed out of Linlithgow Branch for the last time . |
| 12 | Actually I was flitting people from Gedling to Blidworth with this horse and dray . |
| 13 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 14 | He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not . |
| 15 | I was fined £100 . |
| 16 | In the first Wilson was found guilty of slander against the Co-operative Wholesale Society which was awarded £pound150 damages and costs . |
| 17 | To add to his case , John Holloway has been revealed as the chairman of a company which was fined £45,000 in 1990 after making false declarations in connection with applications for vehicle excise licences . |
| 18 | ‘ I was at Corps yesterday , ’ he said , ‘ and General Somebody was telling people how things looked , and he said we were definitely on top . |
| 19 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 20 | Aged 18 , she was given £50,000 from the fund to buy her famous Colherne Court flat , where she lived until her engagement to Charles . |
| 21 | Of every cwt. of copper she was to receive 2s. or one-twentieth during the first five years thereafter to have 2s. 6d. , or one-fifteenth . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got so much on my mind , ’ said my mother irritably , letting us know that she was bearing the.full burden of the forthcoming taxing ceremony . |
| 23 | Having misunderstood the irony of the display , she was telling people : ‘ Do n't believe them . |
| 24 | She was fined £1,000 and warned that further offences could lead to a ban on keeping sheep . |
| 25 | She was fined £3,900 , ordered to forfeit her Ford Fiesta car , worth £800 , and banned from driving for three years . |
| 26 | After three conditional discharges today she was fined £30 |
| 27 | She was fined £10 and caused a riot when crowds besieged the police for stopping her performance . |
| 28 | Julia Pledger , owner/director of Fitzbillies , took her case to Cambridge Crown Court after she was fined £900 on each of 15 counts ( Caterer & Hotelkeeper , 30 May–5 June ) . |
| 29 | She was fined £500 on each charge and banned for 12 months by the town 's magistrates . |
| 30 | And she was fined £1,500 after being found guilty of controlling prostitutes ' earnings . |