Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly my bank manager would take a dim view if I were to indulge in widespread massive discounting — margins are not that generous to begin with ! |
| 2 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 3 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 4 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 5 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 6 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 7 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , come to think of it , I was detained on urgent business with a Catholic . |
| 9 | And I was looking for real ones this time . |
| 10 | ‘ I was looking for new challenges , and Cassell as a large independent commercial publisher offers me the scope to publish a wide range of books in a commercial environment . ’ |
| 11 | I was looking for Old Saul 's skull . |
| 12 | I was looking at back pages of the tabloids this lunchtime and noticed that Steve Coppell is the favourite now . |
| 13 | Therefore I was bound by certain of its manners and rules . |
| 14 | As a result of a chance meeting in a Blackpool bar with a student journalist , I was featured in National Student in an article about disabled students . |
| 15 | I was watching from high up , from the upper part of the grandstand , above the Clubhouse floor to which the owners had returned in a chattering flock to watch the race . |
| 16 | I was listening to weird stuff like Iron Butterfly when I was , like , still learning my alphabet ! |
| 17 | So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’ |
| 18 | I was inundated with photocopied documents and background papers . |
| 19 | I was dressed in red leather riding gear and red boots and sweating a lot despite the air-conditioning . |
| 20 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 21 | On one occasion I was breaking in new territory in Lincolnshire and my fellow ‘ artiste ’ — a male singer who shall remain nameless — moved in on me . |
| 22 | I was sent to Nongkhai province in the North East of Thailand on the Maekhong River across from the capital of Laos . |
| 23 | We get sent all over erm the country , southern England I , I was sent to different hospitals to learn about different things , to learn about erm psychiatry and obstetrics and medicine and then erm you also do some er training back in your own hospital , but it 's not big enough for all the doctors to stay there all the time well the baby doctors . |
| 24 | I was born on central Island as I said . |
| 25 | She said , ‘ I was born in Upper Pitt Street and I remember the hard times we had . ’ |
| 26 | As I was dithering between neglected work and abandoned clearing up , she rang me . |
| 27 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 28 | When I arrived , I was treated to magnificent views of the Pyrenees in the distance , but was disappointed to find the church , which was the reason for the trek , was closed . |
| 29 | I was referring to other more prominent hon. Members . |
| 30 | At lunch-times , I was given to mental lapses . |