Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was invited by two revolutionary movements , the Black Panthers and the Palestinians … . these two groups have a very strong erotic charge . |
| 2 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 3 | The Arts : How I was exposed in 3½ hours |
| 4 | I was sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 5 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 6 | I was transferred from one office to another before being shown into an office whose occupant was asleep in an armchair by the window . |
| 7 | ‘ I went to a tavern in Inverkeithing where I was joined by one of the King 's squires . ’ |
| 8 | This topic remained part of my responsibilities until the middle of 1990 when I was moved to one of the RAF information technology strategy studies . |
| 9 | About two weeks after my first visit to the capital , I was visited by one of the King 's most important officials . |
| 10 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 11 | He has always been aware of his spiritual nature : ‘ When I was seven I was visited by 40 judged — beings of light — who spoke to me about my role here . |
| 12 | I mean I was listening to one of the tapes last night . |
| 13 | I was listening to one of the tapes last night . |
| 14 | I do n't know , I was listening to one of my headphones , alright I pulled it out |
| 15 | I was kidnapped for ten days . |
| 16 | I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee . |
| 17 | My first job was as a shorthand typist — I was fired after three days , mainly for poor spelling . |
| 18 | I was timed at 20.4 seconds . |
| 19 | Well , when it was thought I was ready to go to a job , I was sent to 101 Cadogan Gardens in Chelsea , near Sloane Street to be told to go down the steps to the tradesmen 's entrance . |
| 20 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 21 | I was born on 2 April 1960 in St Andrews in Kingston . |
| 22 | I was born on 2 January 1893 , the third son of Frederick Louis Wilder , F.C.S. , M.I.M.M. , who , at the time , was an assayer in the City . |
| 23 | Yeah I was born in eighteen ninety two see . |
| 24 | Yeah I was born in 1980 . |
| 25 | I was born in 1902 in Windsor , where my father was head gardener on a small estate named Abbey House , and where my mother had been cook . |
| 26 | ‘ I was born in 1943 , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I was born in one of them in June 1910 , the first British child born in Abyssinia . |
| 28 | I was born in one of the semi-detached , but I do n't know which one it was , it must have been one of the |
| 29 | After all , I was born in 1909 . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’ |