Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 2 | I was utterly amazed to discover that the right hon. Gentleman thought that the hon. Member for North Down did not want devolution . |
| 3 | In fact , some two months ago , I was most happy to learn that Sir James was to visit Darlington Hall . |
| 4 | Just as I was fascinated with the reduction in inches from my own thighs when I first embarked on my special diet , I was equally interested to hear whether my trial team had benefited in the cellulite department and I included a question to this effect in my questionnaire . |
| 5 | I suppose , thought Fenella , that I was rather innocent to think that we could get in so easily , or that the Robemaker would not in some way guard his secrets . |
| 6 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 7 | I WAS rather intrigued to read that the Church of England intends to launch a TV advertising campaign next month . |
| 8 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 9 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 10 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 11 | I was not surprised to learn that the shelling of our positions was not the German guns but the British guns ( the bastards ) . |
| 12 | I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy . |
| 13 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 14 | ‘ Today I 'm able to square my profession with my religious beliefs , which I was n't able to do when I left acting , ’ he explains . |
| 15 | I was miserable with cold , but although I was prepared to admit that I was miserable , I was n't prepared to admit that my misery had any connection with cold . |
| 16 | Well , I was n't prepared to believe that my career would be over almost before it had started . |
| 17 | I was also surprised to hear that during the last few days her Premium Bond had won £5,000 . |
| 18 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 19 | But when I did find out I was profoundly relieved to know that all these troubling fantasies which had been playing twice nightly in my head were , in fact , shared by others . |
| 20 | I was particularly interested to hear if there had been any changes in the condition of skin , nails and hair . |
| 21 | I was particularly interested to learn that Buck Owens played rhythm guitar on two tracks , Lotta Lovin ’ and Rollin' Danny . |
| 22 | I was particularly interested to note that in the Whitefield area of Nelson in my hon. Friend 's constituency , largely occupied by ethnic minority households , a neighbourhood watch scheme has recently been set up and is helping to build bridges between the ethnic minority residents and the police . |
| 23 | I was therefore surprised to see that he excluded his own name from the list . |
| 24 | When they happened , however , I was usually unable to foresee or judge their future significance . |
| 25 | I was suddenly startled to see that we were entering the town of Knock . |
| 26 | Although I do agree with some of his points — the need for more public courses and more emphasis put on rules of etiquette — I was somewhat alarmed to read that in the interests of quicker play , we high-handicappers were being relegated to a boring , 9-hole course until we improve our game enough to join ‘ the big boys on the big-boys ’ course ’ . |
| 27 | I was never able to establish whether she was telling the truth — virtually all the hijras I talked to shrouded the facts of their lives in a thick wrap of fantasies — but she was certainly from a middle-class background and spoke fluent English . |
| 28 | She told me : ‘ I was really upset to read that an ‘ insider ’ , whoever that might be , had said I was so busy creating an image for myself in the music industry and trying to be a film star that I could only do four episodes of the latest series . |
| 29 | I was really surprised to see that the Innovation System worked . |
| 30 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |