Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 2 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
| 3 | I was n't in I was n't in in that song but I went to watch the play |
| 4 | I was here from half-past two . |
| 5 | I was there for about a couple of years and then I moved in into Nottingham on traff on the Traffic Department , you know the people that wear the white hats and , and do people for speeding . |
| 6 | Er , which er I suppose I was there for for six years . |
| 7 | But by that time er we were n't there very long and the war finished and I was there in for a year after that in , in er Germany . |
| 8 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 9 | She was previously with as a pensions consultant . |
| 10 | And always , before she 'd talked , finished talking to him she was off on down the road . |
| 11 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 12 | Other and if it was n't for for me doing a course next year which would probably preclude me from doing that , I 'd be quite interested . |
| 13 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 14 | It was also at about this time that further investment was made from the school 's capitation , with a teletext receiver being installed . |
| 15 | If one goes far enough back in United Kingdom constitutional history , one comes to a time when neither Lords nor Commons existed as such and when indeed , it was often by no means certain where the Crown should reside . |
| 16 | It was mainly from among those with a principal carer who wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home were to be found ( if one excludes those who died or moved away , and compares place of care for those whose principal carer said initially that he or she preferred home or institutional care the difference between the two groups is significant at the 0.001 level ) . |
| 17 | It was more like in the direction of the school . |
| 18 | Lydia had always collected curious specimens for her parties , frequently foreign : South Africans who could tell her what it was really like over there , Nigerians in brilliant robes , an Asian boy with almond eyes who had stayed for a month until Gerald heard the scurrilous talk and kicked him out . |
| 19 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 20 | I we had a under-manager come , he come from somewhere down Staffordshire way and y you you 've talked about Tweedledum and Tweedledee , they used to call him Biffy he was just like like one of them . |
| 21 | In a way it did n't surprise me , because I 'd already had a taste of what he was up to with that land . |
| 22 | Jim Dine knew very well what he was up to in demonstrating the interchangeability of object , word and image . |
| 23 | So Freud has to explain this weakness of Wilson , in the face of erm , these much more dominant aggressive men he was up against in these very hard er hitting negotiations , about what to do about the world after , after World War One . |
| 24 | ‘ He was there for at least two days and possibly longer before anyone looked up to see him . ’ |