Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun on my back was warm , but the February nights were still near zero and I was wearing only a sweater . |
| 2 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking maybe a Mafia don who 'd turned State 's Evidence against his Family . ’ |
| 4 | I was telling about a dozen girls what would happen to them when they arrived at RAF Wilmslow . |
| 5 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 6 | I was weighed once a week , but never told my weight . |
| 7 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 8 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 9 | Well , it really speeded things up and I was making quite a bit more , but I missed the chat . |
| 10 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 11 | I was allowed only a small chamfer . |
| 12 | Selling shares for gain should not be confused with giving part of your family business to the next generation , which was made easier a few years back under the inheritance tax rules . |
| 13 | Deddington is indeed a failed town which was founded probably a little before 1190 presumably because of its situation at the junction of what by then were important routes . |
| 14 | The new MOT exhaust emissions test , which was introduced only a few months ago , will also play a significant part in cleaning up the air . |
| 15 | The group-theoretic result of Golod ( 1964 ) is a consequence of joint work with Shafarevich ( also 1964 ) in which was solved affirmatively an old problem of field theory closely related to the work described here in Sections 3.6 , 3.7 and 3.9 ( see [ 43 , p. 125 ] for brief details ) . |
| 16 | Prison officers say there are plans to re-open a Victorian jail which was mothballed nearly a year ago . |
| 17 | The new party was expected to be the main opposition grouping in the colony 's reformed legislature , which was to have almost a third of its members chosen by general election [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 18 | Innocent 's chancery — which was to bear quite a heavy weight of governmental responsibility during the pontificate — appears to have been run personally and autocratically by the pope . |
| 19 | An elegance which was enjoyed only a few days earlier can now seem artificial , out of touch with the sense of self that has arisen . |
| 20 | While I 'm on the subject , whatever happened to the Randy Hansen interview which was promised quite a while ago but never appeared ? |
| 21 | She was referred again a year later with similar problems . |
| 22 | Now she was wearing only a tight white brassière above her skirt . |
| 23 | She was wearing only a white dress ; she would be frozen without a coat . |
| 24 | Sally-Anne was very conscious that she was wearing only a nightgown and a light shawl , and the fear which she sometimes felt these days in the company of men , and had felt ever since — no , forget that — was threatening to overwhelm her . |
| 25 | His eyes dropped blatantly downward and she remembered with a start that she was wearing only a flimsy nightdress , barely skimming the tops of her slender thighs . |
| 26 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 27 | The sporting world is full of fairy tales … but if the name of Samantha Raeisi ever reaches the headlines its going to be quite a story … she 's from Swindon … she 's a mum … she 's a model … and a few years ago she was given just a few weeks to live … |
| 28 | ‘ But we are lucky to have her — she was given only a 50:50 chance of survival when she was born . ’ |
| 29 | She was followed just a few hours later by Pole who , like Wolsey before him , had remained to the end torn between his allegiance to his monarch and his obedience to his spiritual lord . |
| 30 | Though having to go via Le Touquet , Biarritz and the French Congo when hampered two furlongs out , Elizabeth Bay finished so strongly that she was beaten only a couple of lengths by Wixon . |