Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 32 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
| 33 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 34 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 35 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 36 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 37 | Not that she believes in anything , religion and so on — and nor do I of course , though I was brought up a little as a Catholic — but she goes by omens , auguri . |
| 38 | I was brought up a Catholic but I discarded it quite early on . |
| 39 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 40 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 41 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 42 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 43 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 44 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 45 | I was poring over a chart in my room , working out a passage from Foulness Island to Aldeburgh , in Suffolk , when my door half opened and Sir Edmund looked in . |
| 46 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 47 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 48 | It was dark and I was walking along an unmade road alone . |
| 49 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 50 | I was returning along a path and , when passing an isolated croft , a man and his sheepdog emerged . |
| 51 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 52 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 53 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 54 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 55 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 56 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 57 | ‘ I was travelling round a great deal at the start in the West Country , then I went into headquarters which involved administration . ’ |
| 58 | I was staring out the window see , only half-awake. — I did n't sleep so well last night … . ’ |
| 59 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 60 | I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like . |