Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
| 3 | Chidi Imo , with whom I was to have some great races in the future and who became a friend , was in the thick of the arguments . |
| 4 | I mean we would n't of known , I never saw that erm , you know diamond thing with , four , I mean even then I when we bought them I was thinking four sixty fives , that 'll be two sixty and erm three sixty , so you save a bit really do n't you ? |
| 5 | but the trigonometry ones you have to know what they turn into I got some things , a couple of them I was getting stuck on what I supposed to put and then I actually go too far on some 'em , I , I |
| 6 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 7 | I got about halfway , and then wished for a spurt of invention that did n't depend upon one strident clown shaking a furious finger at someone who was standing two feet behind him . ’ |
| 8 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 9 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 10 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 11 | One must remember that Milton is also human and , like the reader , could not help but feel for Satan as an expression of a part of himself which was let loose in his writings . |
| 12 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 13 | Now another journey began , one of which she had no memory , no knowledge of the decision to start , but one which she was made powerless by love to turn from . |
| 14 | Educated at home , Alice early on showed evidence of the beauty , tact , and vivacity for which she was to become renowned . |
| 15 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 16 | Not only was the bedchamber in which she was confined dusty and cold , but her bedlinen and clothing were soiled and damp , her person unwashed , her hair uncombed . |
| 17 | Elsewhere in this issue you will read of the latest Economist survey of Britain 's survey of Britain 's Most Admired Companies in which we were placed third overall ; top in our business sector ; top in quality of management ; and second in our quality of marketing . |
| 18 | What we have dreams of , what we have hardly dared to hope , but towards which we were straining all our will and all our strength , was coming into being over there . " |
| 19 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 20 | But surely , I thought , on the third and final night , which we were to have all to ourselves … . |
| 21 | As ‘ sacrament ’ it stands for the sacrifice of the cross through which we were brought near to God . |
| 22 | The alloy of which they were made age-hardened quickly at normal temperatures , and all rivets had to be chilled before use . |
| 23 | Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets . |
| 24 | For the Nationalists , it was an offensive war of attrition to eradicate every last vestige of liberal democracy , in which they were winning all the way . |
| 25 | The two rooms in question can be and are still in fact used for the same purpose for which they were used prior to the erection of the staircase . |
| 26 | According to the circumstances , nurses either help patients to cope with enforced dependence ( short- or long-term ) , or help them to regain the level of independence to which they were accustomed prior to the episode of ill-health . |
| 27 | They fasted for a further 2 hours , after which they were allowed normal food and fluid intake . |
| 28 | … the recent prosecution of three ex-Constables for grave offences of shopbreaking and garage-breaking of which they were found guilty at the last Assizes and sentenced to long-term imprisonment . |
| 29 | He was energetic in the struggle for Solidarity and finished his parliamentary career as a Solidarity-sponsored senator ( for his native Silesia ) in the newly re-established Senate to which he was elected last summer . |
| 30 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |