Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 2 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 3 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 4 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 5 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 6 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 7 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 8 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 9 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 10 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 11 | ‘ I was pursuing two Germans who were attempting to escape . ’ |
| 12 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 13 | I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie . |
| 14 | I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two . |
| 15 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 16 | I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm . |
| 17 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 18 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 19 | I was born two miles away . |
| 20 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 21 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 22 | I did over Christmas , I did some Carlton and Alfy down there no , no that 's where I met , I had a Christmas holiday job , couple of days worked for him , I was lugging these vices up |
| 23 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |
| 24 | I went cold with horror — I was wearing odd shoes ! |
| 25 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 26 | I 'd be concerned as to whether I was wearing more layers of clothing than the other women , and whether anyone had noticed . |
| 27 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 28 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 29 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 30 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |