Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 2 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 3 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 4 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was trying last year to try to see if I could get a erm an Indian , you know when we sort of do looking at Asia |
| 7 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 8 | ‘ I was approached last year by Lawrence Barnett [ chairman ] to sort things out . |
| 9 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 10 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 11 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 12 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 13 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 14 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 15 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 16 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 17 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 18 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
| 19 | A STRATHCLYDE region official has ‘ unreservedly apologised ’ for remarks linking genetics and the intelligence of Asian and black children which were condemned last week by community leaders . |
| 20 | It 's just those lapses ( which were punished last year ) which we ca n't allow to happen . |
| 21 | The Conference is the forum where Resolutions which were submitted last December and which were discussed at over 50 District Meetings around the country since then were finally put to the vote of the delegates and , if passed , thereby became a cornerstone of Association policy . |
| 22 | It follows the company 's 1.6″ high 0663 , 250,000 of which were shipped last year according to IBM . |
| 23 | THE RESULTS of the June agricultural census for 1992 , which were published last week by the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department , show substantial increases in the areas of wheat , oilseed rape , and fallow land . |
| 24 | The weather was kind for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Henley Golf Club which were held last weekend and large numbers of members and friends attended and were very appreciative of the arrangements which had been made . |
| 25 | Like all Mercantile and General-owned farms , two of which were sold last year and a fourth is also under offer , it had been well-maintained . |
| 26 | The Wolfson Archaeological Science Laboratories , which were opened last year in the first phase of the institute 's development plan , represent the latest advances in archaeology and incorporate modern developments in technology . |
| 27 | Marion has sent out questionnaires to some of the teachers who have used the site-based school packs which were introduced last year . |
| 28 | BSDI 's response to the amended suit , which was served last Thursday , was to declare it ‘ totally without merit ’ and ‘ another step in [ USL 's ] harassment campaign . ’ |
| 29 | " I shall write only that which was written last year and the year before that , " said the Annamese with a sarcastic smile . |
| 30 | The British Museum 's collection , much of which was collected last century or in the early half of this century , was shown by TL to contain some twenty forgeries , most of which had , in recent years , been suspected to be modern . |