Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 2 | Said I was to take extra care to keep your ears warm , specially with this wind . |
| 3 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 4 | Cos I was using that issue at that time , but we always make the proviso that if things change , you may have to alter your mind about where your money 's placed . |
| 5 | I was singing little Hareton to sleep when Catherine came in . |
| 6 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 7 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 8 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
| 9 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 10 | I was watching Central News , Mr was on it and all , like you know that bloke that comes in with his wife with the grey hair that 's always really moody , they have a bottle of Frascati and always drink las |
| 11 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
| 12 | Although we are n't a politically active family , I was discussing Prime Minister John Major 's plan for a classless society with my sister Lynn when my niece Natalie said : ‘ Will this mean we wo n't have to go to school any more ? ’ |
| 13 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 14 | Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere . |
| 15 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 16 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 17 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I was wearing lime-green chiffon and my mother 's emeralds . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | J.B. I was wearing this jumper . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 25 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 28 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 29 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 30 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |