Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My function was to tour the squadrons daily , using the previous evening 's raid as my theme , to explain the difficulties and , in general , to make contact with the Main Force . |
| 2 | She did , and my appendix was removed the next morning . |
| 3 | ‘ My son-in-law was offered the living of St Ermin 's when it fell vacant recently , ’ she said , ‘ but he felt there would be more scope here . ’ |
| 4 | All the time Lucille was talking , my mind was covering the side roads , and I could see a glimmering in the distance that might be the approach of daylight . |
| 5 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 6 | ‘ From the time I was a child my dream was to win the Grand National and the biggest thing I 've gained from it is confidence . |
| 7 | My object was to get a straight edge easily , but there was a definite risk of lifting small particles of colour as it was take off and my aim was to minimise the need for retouching . |
| 8 | My aim was to modernize the health service and I believe that the Government had significant success . |
| 9 | My aim was to investigate the symptoms of decay and perhaps to discover in the ‘ capriciousness and the return to chaos ’ a law which would vouchsafe one an insight into the intimate workings of art . |
| 10 | ‘ My incentive was to get the young man to … trust me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My incentive was to get the man to … trust me . ’ |
| 12 | My job was to take the cart up on the moor to a place called Mile End , and you sat with it all day until they brought the grouse to you . |
| 13 | He would answer the door and my job was to answer the phone . |
| 14 | My job was to answer the telephone and welcome the patients , who were mainly wealthy Greeks and Arabs who came to have check-ups and electrocardiograms . |
| 15 | My job was to press the button to tell the driver to start the bus and then the automatic doors puffed closed and the bus moved off . |
| 16 | My job was to prepare the groundwork for a revolutionary new financial product . |
| 17 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 18 | My job was to spray the drive belts with belt gum whenever they started to slip . |
| 19 | My job was to operate the telephone switchboard , sort the morning post , direct house-callers to the appropriate organization , and that was about it . |
| 20 | My job was to sweep the seas with powerful binoculars from the bows on the left side to 45 degrees . |
| 21 | I was enjoying life in the army while my wife was enjoying the bombing . |
| 22 | I forgot all about it , but some time after Sir Charles died my wife was cleaning the fireplace in his study . |
| 23 | And my father was feeding the shark . |
| 24 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 25 | My father was parking the shark . |
| 26 | At this very moment perhaps my father was fighting the monster , with Ernest dead at his feet . |
| 27 | And my father was tickling the shark . |
| 28 | It was tempting to consider asking Bill himself to share the stage , but the consensus of opinion was that people might find the combination a little ghostly , a little too reminiscent , when all along my instinct was to convey the spirit and feeling of Grenfell , without resorting to mimicry . |
| 29 | By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon . |
| 30 | I was playing my cousin and my cousin was watching the film . |