Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 2 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 3 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 4 | I know I was lucky , my head and body having sustained a beating I felt was within an inch of my life . |
| 5 | The only corners I knew were in the playground where boys tried to fumble in my knickers , and street corners where the winds met head-on . |
| 6 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 7 | The only place I hesitated was over the hallway . |
| 8 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 9 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 10 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 11 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 12 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 13 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 14 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 15 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 16 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 17 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 18 | A house called Les Hiboux , sited in the département of the Dordogne , which she knew was in the south-west , near a community called Issigeac . |
| 19 | You say that the footprints you saw were on the path and not on the grass ? ’ |
| 20 | Ten of the twenty four who died were in a block of three storey flats ; children were among them , their bodies found in a nearby field . |
| 21 | And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience . |
| 22 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 23 | It was er , you know , everything you wanted was from the Co-op , you see . |
| 24 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 25 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 26 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 27 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 28 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 29 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 30 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |