Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson admitted : ‘ I was born up front . |
| 2 | Barak gave specific instructions that I was to go in alone . |
| 3 | One recent Saturday afternoon I was walking along High Row and was treated to the sight of a Labour Party vehicle giving out an election message closely followed by a similar van in Conservative colours broadcasting loud music , presumably to drown out the opposition . |
| 4 | All the time I was breathing in beautiful outdoor air . |
| 5 | The inside of the boot is lined with Cambrelle and has a removable high density footbed — this combination added extra comfort when I was pounding over rough and stony ground . |
| 6 | Having discovered that , I was then , in April of last year , in France , in Strasbourg , Strasbourg is Leicester 's twin city in France , and as I was wondering through near to the cathedral in Strasbourg , I found a book a book-shop , a second- hand book shop . |
| 7 | For once the little gate was locked , but she quickly pulled back the stone bolt and slipped outside , drawing the gate closed but not relocking it : she would need to be as little delayed as possible if she were to get back unnoticed , and the first servants rose early , at the ninth hour of night . |
| 8 | The rape and murder of four US churchwomen who were carrying out humanitarian work with the displaced in December 1980 has received the most detailed international press coverage , but it is by no means an isolated case . |
| 9 | I suspect the answer lies in the demographic changes of the 1980s , which showed a substantial and unexpected in-migration to Scotland , on the same scale and pattern as the ‘ incomers ’ to Wales who were selling off expensive property in south east England and settling down on the proceeds . |
| 10 | You were knocked out cold , and a head wound coupled with alcohol can be serious . ’ |
| 11 | Naomi , she was arriving back penniless she had a foreign daughter-in-law , that in itself was proof enough that she had strayed from God 's will . |
| 12 | first of all she just ripped at it and slung it around , although after a couple of days she was tearing off dainty morsels and swallowing them . |
| 13 | After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her . |
| 14 | Yet here she was opening up old wounds and it was harder to forgive that . |
| 15 | It would be surprising if Tolkien had not looked at the calm face of Tollund Man , or the hideously frightened one of ‘ Queen Gunhild ’ ( all too obviously still struggling as she was pinned down alive ) , and reflected that these were the true lineaments of his pagan ancestors . |
| 16 | She was breathing in great gulps , but still there was n't enough air . |
| 17 | Zambia ordered Nathan , who was looking up perplexed . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's it say ? ’ she asked the nurse who was smoothing out fresh sheets . |
| 19 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 20 | We were led down black-and-white-tiled corridors , through a series of presence chambers , all huge and hung with tapestries which Wolsey had brought from abroad . |
| 21 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 22 | Then we were taken up steep narrow logging roads into the mountains of Boras . |
| 23 | I said this because if one were to think along certain other lines the fact that position is not a quality would seem irrelevant . |
| 24 | They were escorted down long corridors — cooled by fans , for the weather was still very warm-by a senior aide , who was French , and by his aide , who was Algerian . |
| 25 | Outside , on the sun-soaked Common , they were piling up French loaves and bottles of Beaujolais . |
| 26 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |
| 27 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 28 | Customers clamour at the counter as thick as if they were handing out free tickets to Dublin . |
| 29 | They were turning out raw youngsters last season in the Ulster league and there was no way they could survive . |
| 30 | They started by working on a property while they were carrying on other employment , and then turning that property into hotel accommodation . |