Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I took a big breath I were getting short pains all down this side ? |
| 2 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 3 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 4 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 5 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |
| 6 | I went cold with horror — I was wearing odd shoes ! |
| 7 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 8 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 9 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 10 | Obviously I was learning new things all the time and each day we built on what we had learned the day before . |
| 11 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 12 | I remember years ago , when I was teaching slow learners in a Child Guidance clinic , a little girl from a small village was reading a story in which reference was made to someone ‘ cheeking the dinner lady . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Like the good doctor Scawsby , I was completing certain errands — Scawsby was buying medicines for the Queen , ’ he yawned , ‘ I , of course , for the Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 15 | He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories . |
| 16 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 17 | By the time I was 16 , I was winning major contests , amassing a few quid in the bank as a part-time model and walking as though I had a brush handle up my arse . |
| 18 | Said I was distracting other motorists . |
| 19 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 20 | In it I was crossing Old Carrots , coming towards the house , a stick in one hand , the other pushed into my hair . |
| 21 | This time I was making hot pants and rainbow striped jumpers . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself . |
| 23 | But I did learn that when I was doing full-scale removals . |
| 24 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 25 | She thought it was empty at first , but someone was putting fresh flowers on the altar , and turned quickly when she heard the door close . |
| 26 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 27 | Ashley gazed up into dark brown eyes which were sending intimate messages and telling her everything she had been longing to hear . |
| 28 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 29 | She was standing by a small chest of drawers on which were littered various pieces of domestic junk and a pile of old magazines — True Story , Confessions , Tit-Bits and the like . |
| 30 | Together , these two initiatives exhibit most of the features which were to characterise Conservative policies towards the inner cities for the rest of the decade : |