Example sentences of "[pron] was [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's tough , but the writing was on the wall once I was 12th man . |
| 2 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 3 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 4 | I was next door getting some more of those candied mice . |
| 5 | ‘ I was next door . ’ |
| 6 | Think it was last was it last Monday when I was next door for coffee ? |
| 7 | She must have been giving him instructions to find out where I was last night . |
| 8 | Where I was last night , and so on . |
| 9 | Let him see I 'm no longer the pushover I was last night ! |
| 10 | Erm I was last night because I was all ready to come and the telephone rang and it was one of those |
| 11 | Ca n't tell you how cut up I was last year to hear those Irish madmen had killed her . |
| 12 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 13 | the twenty stone I was last month . |
| 14 | In an earlier notebook , dated 10 March '97 , he recorded : My limbs fall in , tremble , yield , I am a wreck , even of what I was last Spring . |
| 15 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 16 | I was last week |
| 17 | Er , you know but I , she , when I was last week at Sheila 's she said he he her , you know , sign of |
| 18 | His was 25th August . |
| 19 | I did a drugs awareness sketch and got a small part in the school play which was Twelfth Night . |
| 20 | Her husband John 's mother then evacuated her house , which was next door . |
| 21 | At the other extreme , Japan is predicted to be the OECD 's fastest grower in 1991 ( 3.7% ) , followed closely by Turkey ( 3.5% ) , which was last year 's top performer . |
| 22 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 23 | The buying came prior to the group announcing a £347 million rights issue and took Asda ahead of BT which was last month 's favourite . |
| 24 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 25 | Maria Luisa is n't the gullible little girl she was last year in Seville . |
| 26 | She was last night being comforted by her boyfriend at a caravan park near the beach . |
| 27 | She was last night ‘ comfortable ’ in Middlesbrough General . |
| 28 | Meg said : ‘ I think she was next door clearing the table a minute ago . |
| 29 | And he knew she was next door because he had heard her moving about . |
| 30 | So Mrs had a fish dinner and , you 'll never guess , there she was next morning under the millstone table doing her Oliver Twist bit . |