Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 2 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , I was Chief Secretary for two years and Chancellor for one year . |
| 3 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 4 | But I was n't there , and this is to your advantage because I 'm not going to harp on about my favourite Shankly saying , or pretend I was close friends with the man like certain people do . |
| 5 | One day there were about a dozen of us there , including Dickie and myself ; I was Prime Minister at the time . |
| 6 | When I was political editor of the Daily Mirror , Maxwell took a shine to this hat and asked me to get him one identical to it . |
| 7 | But I was nine years in er digs . |
| 8 | I did n't realize I was multi-racial side of it . |
| 9 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 10 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 11 | I was five years in India with him . |
| 12 | I was five years in the pits . |
| 13 | So was I. The expectant mother was sixteen years old and one of my students at the school in Barcelona where I was five months into my first teaching job . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I was five months in Brazil and I thought then , if I want to get further into South America I need Spanish . |
| 15 | Editor , — A Esmail and S Everington 's short report reminded me of a situation when I was executive dean of the medical school of the University of Manchester in 1970 . |
| 16 | A year or two later I was best man at the Braden-Kelly wedding which was performed by Bernie 's father , the Rev. Dr. E.D. Braden at the Kerrisdale United Church of which he was minister . |
| 17 | I was force-marched back to the retiring chamber , Benjamin and the cardinal trooping behind us . |
| 18 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
| 19 | First because in Prisoner desire and fantasy seem transformed into nonsublimated social identification ; as he puts it in relation to one group of black students in America , ‘ while I never desired any particular person , I was all desire for the group as a whole . |
| 20 | I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess . |
| 21 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 22 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 23 | He looked past her , his expression withdrawn and distant in the way she disliked , and when he spoke it was without warmth : ‘ I was personal slave to the Master and as such did personal tasks . ’ |
| 24 | I was twenty-eight years of age . |
| 25 | I was eight months at Huntingdon , from February to October 1945 , and during that time the war came to an end , first the German war and then , most unexpectedly , the Japanese war . |
| 26 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 27 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 28 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 29 | I did n't feel I was able to tell her I was pregnant right from the start . |
| 30 | ‘ I was 10 minutes from the title , ’ he said ruefully afterwards . |