Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 2 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 3 | I also realized I was going to be OK . |
| 4 | When I realized I was walking towards my father 's house I quickly changed my direction . |
| 5 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 6 | I realised I was going to be nicked . |
| 7 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 8 | A firm , insistent hand between my shoulder-blades pushed me further into the room ; my feet moved , but my body refused to follow and I realised I was standing at an angle . |
| 9 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 10 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 11 | Actually , it just happened because I found I was engaging with people who had similar interests to myself . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 13 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 14 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 15 | Apart from a handful of friends that were his own age , like Nicholas Soames and Lord Romsey — who were still fourteen or fifteen years Diana 's senior — most of the people Charles enjoyed seeing were older , with the result that Diana frequently found she was socializing with her father 's , or even grandfather 's , generation . |
| 16 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
| 17 | And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly . |
| 18 | She found she was bursting for a pee , but was determined not to repeat Estelle 's performance . |
| 19 | erm to make the most of the holiday , and then found she was working in the sh in the middle . |
| 20 | Alexandra stood up , found she was standing on her own hem , bobbed a little to release herself and confronted a large , commanding woman pulling off brown suede gloves . |
| 21 | You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’ |
| 22 | You can indicate a specific start point for the list by supplying a start Client identifier ; if not , the list will start at the last Client created who was associated with the specified Product . |
| 23 | Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world . |
| 24 | Nurses who found her were reduced to tears when they read a heart-rending note pinned to her dress . |
| 25 | The temporary flat in which I found him was littered with books . |
| 26 | When first built they were driven by a water-balance system . |
| 27 | As they uncovered it , they found they were looking at not a human , but an animal . |
| 28 | But in 1937 it switched to Kirov , in honour of a local party commissar ( it transpired he was assassinated by Stalin , who thought him too popular ) . |
| 29 | And he maintained he was sacked on the direct orders of the RUC because they knew he was a security risk . |
| 30 | His eyes were so bright they glowed beneath the sea , and when he moved he was preceded by an evil-smelling fog on the surface of the waves . |