Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 2 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 3 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 4 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 5 | I used to take them every day and I was like that right , and then what I used to do on a Sunday I would n't take one cos I used to think right I like my Sunday dinner and I will never give up my Sunday dinner when I 'm dieting right |
| 6 | Look at that time my dad did that lady over there and left me on the phone and told me to stay there and I was like that . |
| 7 | and I was like this driving along the road . |
| 8 | And I was in all the evening . ’ |
| 9 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 10 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 11 | And you was in these top rooms with the the stoves , but erm they had gas stoves , under the irons . |
| 12 | Yo do you there was one very bonny lass and she was on the er , they , they had erm composite programme the other the other week and she was on that again . |
| 13 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 14 | She was n't very coherent … and she was in such a bad state I could n't force her … ’ |
| 15 | Yeah the carcasses , and they was in some of them was just sort of like died there and that was it , it was just there , and it rotted away and there was all |
| 16 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 17 | She had found a man who meant more to her than anything in the world and he was of another world , as he had told her . |
| 18 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 19 | And he was on that train , I 'm afraid . |
| 20 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 21 | And he was in this mood when disaster struck . |
| 22 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 23 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 24 | And he was like that was n't he ? |
| 25 | A couple of weeks yeah and then he used to cry and he was like that and then he got it out of his system did n't he ? |
| 26 | Since then we have published the timetable for the amalgamation of regiments , and it was to that fact that my right hon. Friends were perfectly fairly drawing attention . |
| 27 | He was a funeral ‘ director ’ rather than a furnisher , and it was to this practice that a number of top-rank funeral furnishers working in London looked — Ballard , Dowbiggin & Holland , J.D. Field , A. France & Son , J. Kenyon , Leverton 's and John Nodes — though they were never quite to match his mastery . |
| 28 | After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems . |
| 29 | Yet it emphasizes the close personal bonds which had existed between the dukes of Aquitaine and their vassals : the Pommiers were an ancient family , members of the ducal household , and it was to this kind of traditional relationship that appeal could be made by a largely absentee king-duke at periods of crisis . |
| 30 | And it was to this man that almost everyone now turned as the rather quiet , rather cultured , rather interesting , wholly English voice began to speak : |