Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was called The Graduate and , said Nicholson , they were ‘ auditioning everyone I was having lunch with ’ . |
| 2 | I remember Witney 's skilful insertion of some kind of crossbow bolt ; me I was wedging shards of brown glass into the other boy 's crown . |
| 3 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ When I originally started with them I was playing bass on three or four songs . |
| 5 | Therefore , someone who was earning £12,000 per annum would receive a pension of £8,000 per annum . |
| 6 | One of them was John Stuart Mill who feared , however , that the reform of them which was taking place in the 1840s was being taken as an affair of humanity only , not of justice . |
| 7 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 8 | I know now that there is every reason for joy at the thought of the day on which I was given life . |
| 9 | From 1943 onwards he probably did n't miss a single performance in which I was taking part and he must have seen Us in Traviata every time it was done . |
| 10 | We all four ducked , there was a vivid white flash , the road on which I was crouching split in several directions , deep black crevices , then stuff came down on me and numbed my back and head . |
| 11 | After a delightful dinner party with young friends in their lovely Phillimore Gardens home , I went on to the Lancaster Hotel , where the Diamond Ball , which was an inaugural ball for SANE ( Schizophrenia A National Emergency ) was taking place in the hotel 's new ballroom which I was told seats 1,400 guests . |
| 12 | She also provided some herbal oil with which I was to massage Jean-Claude 's limbs . |
| 13 | When the multi-storey hotel in which she was staying burst into flames trapping people on the upper floors , " Alligator " quickly summed up the situation . |
| 14 | She organized the first Red Cross women 's camp , and during World War I was commandant of a Voluntary Aid Deteachment hospital in Glamorganshire , for which she was appointed MBE . |
| 15 | Carla was cross-legged on the floor next to the coffee table on which she was playing Patience with Sara 's cards . |
| 16 | One of the cheap cigars to which she was addicted burns ignored between her fingers , the skin of her face dragging down with indifference . |
| 17 | Over the years , Dauntless had become used to loneliness , but he suspected that for Cleo it was a new condition which she was having trouble getting used to . |
| 18 | She needed to be disenchanted too , from this shape in which she was held prisoner . |
| 19 | What d' ya you were saying Karen how d' ya have to how did you manage to do it ? |
| 20 | Thus between 1966 and 1974 there were breeding season records from another 11 sites , of which three held birds in three years and four in two , making a grand total of 42 sites for which there were breeding season records between 1962 and 1975 . |
| 21 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 22 | Even when certain licensed dealers have survived , the firms in which they were making markets have gone bust . |
| 23 | Those tube trains are full of them , ’ he was saying agitatedly as Pooley arrived at the table at which they were having tea . |
| 24 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 25 | He was an early investor in Newcomen steam engines , used for mine drainage , and in 1736 he conducted an experiment before the Royal Society , as a result of which he was elected FRS , relating to the problems caused in coalmines by inflammable gases . |
| 26 | Liebermann was a leader of the 1898 Secession , to which he was elected president , an office which he held until 1911 . |
| 27 | The press had advance copies of the speech in which he was to defend Marshall , so that his climb-down was plain for all to see when he failed to deliver it . |
| 28 | He held a pair of red hot tongs in his hands with which he was tweaking Uncle Philip 's testicles . |
| 29 | Complaints about his conduct were made , of which he was given notice , and a formal investigation was instituted and adjourned pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against those arrested . |
| 30 | He is looking for letters from potential puchasers of Loch Lomond , the troubled up-market golf and country club development of which he was appointed administrator in November 1990 . |