Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1979 , as a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists , I was gutted , as indeed we all were , when Labour lost the election having been brought down by the ‘ Tartan Tories ’ . |
| 2 | He knows exactly what 's going on , so I was gutted when the manager signed Nigel Spackman to play alongside him . |
| 3 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 4 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 5 | ‘ I was gutted ’ he said . |
| 6 | I was gutted . |
| 7 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 8 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 9 | I was gutted . |
| 10 | I was gutted . |
| 11 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 12 | If I was traced , he would certainly remember me … . |
| 13 | By this time David had started up the Arts Lab and asked me if I would teach street theatre and improvisation there , so I was destined to go to Beckenham . ’ |
| 14 | Inevitably I was destined to become a zoologist in later life . |
| 15 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 16 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 17 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 18 | " Young as I was " , he wrote later , " I had a feeling that I was destined to work for big changes and improvements in the lives of men of the sea " . |
| 19 | Despite this I was recognised . |
| 20 | I was invited to chair one session last week . |
| 21 | It was in April when we arrived and I was invited to join branch members in the Anzac Day Parade in Adelaide . |
| 22 | I was invited by two revolutionary movements , the Black Panthers and the Palestinians … . these two groups have a very strong erotic charge . |
| 23 | Shortly after I left the public sector again , I was invited to chair a seminar at the Civil Service Staff College at Sunningdale comparing being an accounting officer in the Civil Service and being chairman of a public company and appearing before an annual general meeting . |
| 24 | I was invited to lunch one day . |
| 25 | It was as a result of this withdrawal that I was invited to write the paper ( Currie , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | Seeing my interest was now aroused , I was invited to try the unit myself on a day 's diving . |
| 27 | Some weeks after returning from my exploits in Alaska and Siberia , I was invited to give a lecture on the trip to the Overseas League meeting in the Empress Hotel , Victoria . |
| 28 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 29 | In the middle of these difficulties I was invited to visit the Chicago headquarters of Binks Manufacturing ( Binks Bullows 's parent company ) to negotiate selling the machine to the US . |
| 30 | I was invited to attend as a ‘ participating observer ’ and the time I spent in the Social Studies group , I remember as one of the most exciting and productive in my educational experience , marred only by the fact that the conference had to end a little early because the money ran out . |