Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was sprinting full tilt across the playground , with the ‘ bad boy ’ of the year hot on my heels , as it was ‘ boys after girls ’ . |
| 32 | ‘ I was wearing lime-green chiffon and my mother 's emeralds . |
| 33 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 34 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
| 35 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 36 | ‘ 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 . |
| 37 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 38 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 39 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 40 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 41 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 42 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 43 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 44 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 45 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 46 | After another term , I was given more art , and my class-room became an unofficial art room , much to the distress of the caretaker , who accused me of having the dirtiest class-room in the school ! |
| 47 | I feel I could score more goals in Italy if I was given more freedom . |
| 48 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 49 | I was learning bad language . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ I was thinking that responsibility , and maybe guilt , had turned Lachlan Cattanach onto the straight road . |
| 52 | Erm , I would be happy , I mean , I purposely , I put some lines in just because I was thinking that way at the time , but I 'd be very happy if other people would scribble it out , change it , throw it back at me , you know , I would like to see I suppose , just to see if we can erm , if that , because , because I have to say that although you know part of reading 's letter , erm , I feel it 's , it , it feels destructive and it feels very critical . |
| 53 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
| 54 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 55 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 56 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 57 | I therefore reminded him that the Emperor had authorized my journey , and told him that whether his soldiers came with me or not I was leaving that afternoon . |
| 58 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 59 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 60 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |