Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] was [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 2 | Theodora wondered which it was in this case . |
| 3 | No , she told me she was in another place , I 've never heard of it , . |
| 4 | Sarah was n't listening , she was the one she was with another guy . |
| 5 | Like the one he was with that night . |
| 6 | On the sixth one it was like this sort of year and I was getting into Christmas and that . |
| 7 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 8 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 9 | Perhaps this came about in part because his idol and friend , Wordsworth — to whom he was in some way in thrall — had left the district to go to France and make a settlement with his French mistress and daughter as a prelude to marrying his childhood sweetheart back in England . |
| 10 | But er well he he was from that part of the town , Westend , that way you know . |
| 11 | We were quick to condemn American Open Champion , Curtis Strange , for voicing his opinion of a spectator , a cameraman — whatever it was during this year 's U.S.P.G.A. Championship . |
| 12 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 13 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |