Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was over there most days when I was a boy . ’ |
| 2 | Hurt by ‘ the ungenerous treatment which I met with from that very sex whose sufferings I was at so much pains to relieve ’ , he was glad to leave Aberdeen when recalled to active duty in the Royal Navy . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things . |
| 4 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 5 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 6 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
| 7 | Yet she was in precisely that situation . |
| 8 | ‘ She could n't walk , or bend , and getting upstairs to her own room was impossible because she was in too much pain , ’ says Janet . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you speak to me in that way , ’ Nora retorted , ‘ or I 'll box your ears , you ungrateful girl ! ’ and they were into yet another quarrel . |
| 10 | But questions about the objective consistency of a practice , asked as it were from outside that practice , make no sense . |
| 11 | He felt as if he were at yet another family wedding . |
| 12 | But when the Telecom commercial arose , it was with very little reluctance that I went along , with most of the other ethnic actresses in England , to audition for the role of the Jewish momma , then masquerading under the name of Dora . |
| 13 | It was at just that moment the bells began . |
| 14 | It was at about that time that I wrote a paper entitled — I hoped provocatively — ‘ What should a biochemistry of learning and memory be about ? ’ |
| 15 | It was to further these aims that the Federation launched a newsletter , E.F . |
| 16 | It was for just such occasions that Martha kept her best china locked securely in the glass cabinet and saved to get the front room furnished ‘ fit for visitors ’ . |
| 17 | It was for just such occasions that fish and chips were invented . ’ |
| 18 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 19 | It was for precisely this reason that Russia , which had far more than any other State to fear from strong government and an active foreign policy in Sweden , did everything in its power to uphold that constitution ( see p. 266 ) . |
| 20 | The final curtain as it was for so many cinemas at this time , before they became cash and carry warehouses for bowls and colanders , brushes , clothes pegs , cloths and uncountable tons of things being produced in orange plastic . |
| 21 | On the contrary , virtually all our suggestions were very much in the mainstream of contemporary biblical scholarship , and it was from precisely this scholarship that much of our research derived . |
| 22 | And then he remembered that it was in exactly this position in exactly this place that he had turned to face Lucy , less than three weeks ago , shouting obscenities at her . |
| 23 | It was in just this situation that the FAA originally decided to take an authoritative attitude and make it compulsory for flight crews to report dangerous incidents . |
| 24 | We know more about movie-going in Chicago than about any other city and this is appropriate for it was in so many ways the symbolic city of those last decades before the First World War . |
| 25 | It was in there this morning , in a way , it 's got , got out somewhere . |
| 26 | Presumably , he was from outside that area . |
| 27 | The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies . |
| 28 | He was in as much turmoil as she . |
| 29 | When it poured down incessantly he saw only too clearly how he had got stuck , was at an impasse , handicapped as he was in so many respects . |
| 30 | It probably was n't , but he was in too much pain to argue , so he nodded , and immediately became Jimbo . |