Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I maintained my usual composure was to me a miracle , and once more we were on our way to the frontier . |
| 2 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 3 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 4 | ‘ The headmaster of my old school was from Cambridge . |
| 5 | My favourite house was in Leicester . |
| 6 | Although there is much good stuff here and I shall undoubtedly find it a useful reference , on putting it down my chief desire was to out and solo something barefoot ! |
| 7 | Anyway he went about in railway jobs as the years went by and I was born in , taken with the rest to Leicester , City of Leicester , but my early memories was in Nottingham . |
| 8 | My early training was in the sciences . |
| 9 | I joined the committee and my principal activity was in the end to assist in procuring its dissolution . |
| 10 | ‘ My 20-year-old sister was at home alone when they struck . |
| 11 | My poor master was in the depths of despair . |
| 12 | And my poor Clemence was about as helpless a female as you 'd find in a long day 's march . ’ |
| 13 | He foresaw ‘ the many hardships , miseries and wants that my poor family was like to meet with … should I be taken from them , especially my poor blind child … . |
| 14 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 15 | My initial interest was in participation . |
| 16 | My immediate thought was for the very basic question of acquiring premises , space to accommodate staff and the books we have purchased . |
| 17 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 18 | My small daughter was with me in town and she complained about the smell , so it should be done . |
| 19 | It was just as well that he did n't know my long-term aim was to be a pro golfer . |
| 20 | When I first started with the team at Moor Lane my particular responsibility was for the children 's talks . |
| 21 | My superior self was on a quixotic errand ! |
| 22 | My middle daughter was like that , tall and slim and you could hardly tell . |
| 23 | However I learned from Daphne 's friend that my errant partner was to be discharged on 20 February 1919 , leaving me with little or no time to balance the books . |
| 24 | My new creation was to be free of all that . |
| 25 | As in the past , he was anxious to know what my new job was like , and it was reassuring for me to learn that he thought that such work was very much needed . |
| 26 | My immune system was on my side but needed support , just as I needed its support . |
| 27 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 28 | My whole body was in pain . ’ |
| 29 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 30 | My main interest was in travel . |