Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of my sister was not entirely beyond my comprehension as it was beyond that of my other sisters . |
| 2 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 3 | My headmaster and a teacher , after a long struggle , managed to convince my Papa that it was in my best interest to pursue such a training . |
| 4 | In the book I quote a letter from my father when I was at Cambridge , and I remember talking to my father about the National Gallery as early as 1928 . |
| 5 | S. H. One night , I was on duty in town and my mate and I was in Renshaw Street and the Chief Constable came along in civvies and said : ‘ Report yourself , gossiping on the beat . ’ |
| 6 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 7 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 8 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 9 | and my Japanese when I was in the States found the leaflet and when I cam back she said would n't this be of interest to you for my own and then she said and what about your project because there will be people there who write and dead dead true . |
| 10 | Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've also managed to get into my house while I was at work . |
| 12 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 13 | It was no less incongruous for me to live with my mother than it was for Syl to live with his , or Nour with Marie Claire . |
| 14 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 15 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 16 | I am quite sure she was as sensitively generous to her sister as she was to me . |
| 17 | He was making her feel a bit strange again with his hand on her skin and she was at a decided disadvantage . |
| 18 | She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either . |
| 19 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 20 | Her hands ceased their uncertain fluttering , dropping to her lap as she sat back and then tugging at the hem of her skirt until it was at a more modest level . |
| 21 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 22 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 23 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 24 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 25 | Aileen was looking dubiously at her husband but he was in no mood to disapprove . |
| 26 | She sustained an injury to her hip which prevented her from caring for her husband when he was at home . |
| 27 | As the weather improved and the days lengthened Anne saw John several times , but usually she was on her bicycle and he was on foot . |
| 28 | Either something had happened to her or those two fivers had gone to her head and she was on a day-long spree . |
| 29 | I think she had two-thirds of her first album composed or in her head when she was with us . ’ |
| 30 | Both my cousins were operators in a cotton mill where Uncle George was a maintenance fitter , a job which had left its mark for he was minus a finger on each hand . |