Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both he and I were members of the Committee when the report was produced . |
| 2 | Although neither my hon. Friend nor I were Members of the House when Mr. Thorpe was a Member , we both remember that , as my hon. Friend said , he was a ’ dashing figure ’ in the politics of the 1970s . |
| 3 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 4 | Complete this sentence : If I were dictator for a day … |
| 5 | I were dickeyup in a week . ’ |
| 6 | I was partway outside a takeaway pizza napoletana |
| 7 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 8 | I was secretary of the Society of Reason . |
| 9 | I was Secretary of the miner 's support group that was set up in Blaenau during the year long miner 's s strike where we collected a lot of food and twinned with a town down in South Wales and made a lot of new friends . |
| 10 | Er as regards to the team that was gon na come down from London and I was Secretary of the Football Club at that time . |
| 11 | And then I got on to the , I was convenor of the housing allocation committee for very many years . |
| 12 | Their chaos and squalor did not compare well with the pristine beauty of Jerba and , as a lone male out of season , I was prey to a horde of street hustlers . |
| 13 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 14 | Moreover , I was chairman of the Child Poverty Action Group at the time when you were commissioned to do research and prepare a pamphlet on ‘ Families with low income in London . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When I was chairman of the party , that man would have been sacked , ’ Lord Tebbit said . |
| 16 | When I was Chairman of the Crofters Commission we carried out a modest experiment in encouraging school children in crofting areas to improve the appearance of their villages . |
| 17 | ‘ I was cook on a ship that stopped here once . |
| 18 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |
| 19 | While there I was part of a management team that led a successful buyout of the Bricom Group from B & c . |
| 20 | ‘ I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life , but I was part of a group that enjoyed playing cards . |
| 21 | Yes I was part of the firearms team that was er briefed to enter that department . |
| 22 | With 115 Squadron at Marham , after doing the conversion course , I was part of the crew that took WF562 down to Odiham for the Coronation Review of the RAF , but what was not mentioned was the cleaning of the aircraft using tins of ‘ Duraglit ’ by air and ground crew before we went , only to fly through a rain storm on the way down and having to do it all over again , when we arrived . |
| 23 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 24 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 25 | First I would relax , lie upon a bed , although not the bed in which I normally slept , go through the breathing exercises until I felt that I was part of the bed , weightless and sinking through it . |
| 26 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 27 | I was part of the week 's news , after all . |
| 28 | At the office door I found that I was second in the queue , not first . |
| 29 | I taught at the London School of Economics , I was head of the department at the University of Essex in which you were an undergraduate , and was in fact your personal tutor . |
| 30 | Music was a sideline and I was sort of the loner of the family , sitting for hours in my brother 's room listening to records . |