Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 2 | When I first met my Working Group I was astonished to discover that they were far more progressive in outlook than the members of the Kingman Committee . |
| 3 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 4 | And I forget which of my old colleagues it was who was canvassing , blue rosette ablaze , in a particularly Labour-dominated council estate in Sheffield , when he came upon an elderly voter planting primroses by the door . |
| 5 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 6 | ‘ In my early days I was into Pere Ubu and Josef K , but now I 'm more mellow and listen to Lyle Lovett and some classical stuff . |
| 7 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 8 | My father worked on the railway and in my conscious life he was a supervisor , he was called an inspector , Inspector . |
| 9 | And my great grandfather he was a bookbinder . |
| 10 | To my utter horror I was put on Fry House , which was the house for pregnant women at that time . |
| 11 | And I I , I did say to Bet oh my bleeding mouth I was gon na say . |
| 12 | ‘ In my first season I was referee-of-the-year in Chesterfield . |
| 13 | ‘ My first term I was in there six times , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 14 | When I saw my first period I was scared to death . |
| 15 | In my first job I was required to wear a suit . |
| 16 | In my spare time I was taking boat parties out from Mid Yell , and I ‘ used ’ that animal all summer , rarely failing to find it . |
| 17 | In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year . |
| 18 | In my own case it was not that I was considered pastorally unsuitable , or academically unable , which led to my being refused ordination . |
| 19 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 20 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
| 21 | In my own opinion it was largely the former . ) |
| 22 | ‘ Bad luck , ’ I said although for my own sake I was glad that he had failed . |
| 23 | And yet my s my oldest sister she was three years older than me and she could n't remember him . |
| 24 | July , and I bet , bet my bottom dollar it was taken when Jackie and Tom were on holiday because of how their bit of front garden is all dried up and that building at the back was completed |
| 25 | In my elevated state I was afraid only that the cop might search us and discover the Dexedrine in Dana 's pocket . |
| 26 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 27 | So , by my twentieth gig I was playing the Rainbow in Finsbury Park with Cozy , supporting Suzi Quatro , and was more than a bit nervous . |
| 28 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 29 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 30 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |