Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 2 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 3 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 7 | ‘ I was approached last year by Lawrence Barnett [ chairman ] to sort things out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 10 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 11 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 14 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 15 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 16 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 17 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | " I shall write only that which was written last year and the year before that , " said the Annamese with a sarcastic smile . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The revision of this coalfield area relies heavily on computerised systems for data analysis , developed during the survey of the adjacent Morpeth-Bedlington-Ashington district , a thematic mapping project jointly funded with DOE , which was completed last year . |
| 22 | The other option is to take over the property in central Edinburgh 's Grassmarket which was vacated last year by Heriot-Watt University , as it completed its move to the Riccarton campus on the western outskirts of the capital . |
| 23 | So they compromised and gave £100 to the Barlow Clowes Investors Group which was formed last July to represent the investors ' interests and co-ordinate the fight for compensation . |
| 24 | PRESIDENT REAGAN 'S decision to sell off the United States 's weather satellites , which was announced last week , has thrown the world 's meteorological community into confusion . |
| 25 | IBM Corp , Legent Corp , Candle Corp and KnowledgeWare Inc have joined the 19 founding members of the Customer Support Consortium , which was announced last November : founding members of the Redmond group include Intel Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp and Silicon Graphics . |
| 26 | The year erm which was done last year myself , self assessment and that I 've actually my form tutor to suggest it and they are reasonably positive , like sixty five percent to move into |
| 27 | Health union officials say as many as a hundred and fifty jobs could be lost with the closure of the hospital which was confirmed last week after months of speculation . |
| 28 | This was the result of three or four very good properties , Mr Kewley explained — in particular , the Point Horror series for 10 year olds and upwards , which was published last year , has 18 titles in print and is doing ‘ phenomenally well ’ , and John Cunliffe 's pre-school TV tie-in series , Rosie and Jim , with 12 titles in print . |
| 29 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 30 | Francis Bacon , well known for his capacity to drink nearly everyone under the table , left his friend John Edward , a son of a publican , £10 million in his will , which was published last month |