Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of each sequence , a picture of a human , an animal or object was presented , and the sequence was introduced as being a ‘ story ’ about whoever or whatever was depicted in this initial picture . |
| 2 | I still do not know [ September 1992 ] who briefed this court , when the briefings took place or what was told to this court during those briefings . ’ |
| 3 | Let's now come back to this quiff analysis where John was confused and everyone was explaining to each other . |
| 4 | I eased the wheel up , drawing Wavebreaker 's bows harder into the sea and wind , and I was rewarded with another shattering of white spray that exploded prettily about our bows before I let the hull fall away once more . |
| 5 | What I did there was I had my Trio preamp going through a Boogie 295 power amp into a couple of Boogie Black Shadow speaker cabs and I was switching between that setup and the Fender Twin . |
| 6 | Do you know when I went out to the maths thing I was waiting for , I was there and I was heard about these forgotten a calculator ! |
| 7 | But erm , and I was looking through all these posters and most of them were of nude women ! |
| 8 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 9 | from you and , and I was looking at that and ticking boxes and I was , I was almost not listening to what you were saying at times . |
| 10 | And I was screaming by this time and Miss goes oh be quiet everybody ! |
| 11 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 12 | I tried to stab my beak at them , to catch them with my talons , to use what strength was left in my wing , but the pain of it all was terrible and I was weakening with each second that passed by and before each new attack . |
| 13 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 14 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 15 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 16 | Initially , Wendy received six-monthly inseminations , but she felt ill-at-ease : ‘ They were always done so impersonally and I was going through such an emotional , personal experience . ’ |
| 17 | And I was going like this doing a little dance on the ladder trying to find the next rung and the ladder was doing a little dance on the wall . |
| 18 | I finished every day mostly at one o'clock and I was to start at half past five the next morning . |
| 19 | And then joined so he joined the army , and I was left with this bicycle , and a friend of mine said , How about coming with us on Sunday , you can skip chapel this Sunday , and we 'll go out er we 're going into Derbyshire , and I finished up on Ack 's Edge . |
| 20 | The things I find so tragic , and I was talking to some girls erm in a sixth form college recently , and the thing that I find saddest is that the schools evade the issue . |
| 21 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 22 | And I was working at this day and being a Monday or a Tuesday after the Mo Sunday meeting . |
| 23 | he were ever so good and I was told about all these |
| 24 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 25 | of which he violently disapproves and which was written by some cunt |
| 26 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 27 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 28 | In Turkey , the September coup brought to power a military regime headed by General Evren , cutting short the period of civilian parliamentary politics in which the personalities of Ecevit and Demirel were prominent and which was marred by much violence , urban and rural alike , with right- and left-wing extremists involved . |
| 29 | There is a long tradition among revolutionary thinkers and activists that communist society would be administered without bureaucratic relationships between political leaders and the people — without , that is , an apparatus which represented the particular interests of a dominant class and which was divorced from those engaged in production ( Hegedus 1976 , p. 17 ) . |
| 30 | The archetype of faith is Abraham , who went out at God 's command though he did not know where he was going , and who was prepared at that command even to sacrifice his own son . |