Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waterloo I was defeated you won the war . |
| 2 | That 's the story I was thinking you were doing it today erm it 's called the green knight , but he has a name does n't he ? |
| 3 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 4 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |
| 5 | Wrapped in a white towelling robe I was making my way back towards my room when I encountered a tall bearded man clad only in a towel . |
| 6 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 7 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 8 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 9 | During the afternoon I was given my answer . |
| 10 | Jean I was telling you all my problems . |
| 11 | Yeah granddad I was saying you know when erm you know when Richard was saying it 's an insult to be called a cockney when he 's not a cockney . |
| 12 | So , there 's something given , that entitles feedback I was giving you then , some people referred to it as this . |
| 13 | at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more |
| 14 | By the time Michele returned and resumed his seat she was sipping her wine , her plate almost empty . |
| 15 | Gloria had told Dot she was to fill her boots . |
| 16 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 17 | In fact , she won the history prize so many times that last term she was given it to keep , having only missed out in the second-year . |
| 18 | Shows what a boost it was having you here . ’ |
| 19 | On the Red Hall estate on Tuesday he was taking his orders from Coun. Sonia Willans standing at a central point while the other members radiated out . |
| 20 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 21 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 22 | ‘ If Ian had a fault it was over-indulging his children . |
| 23 | The distinction between this case and Stevenson 's case is that in Stevenson 's case the defendant had a regular practice of selling his ex-rental cars and also in selling those cars he was selling something akin to stock-in-trade . |
| 24 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 25 | Feverishly her hands fumbled with the waistband of his trousers , desperate to give him the pleasure he was giving her . |
| 26 | His black curly hair was blown flat across his skull and his ice blue eyes began to water with the force of the wind He was enjoying himself . |
| 27 | At 15 , he started to dabble with heroin and within 12 months he was using it daily . |
| 28 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 29 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 30 | I was singing it in , not in my feet I was going I was me going to do all the words |