Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 2 | I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’ |
| 3 | If I was born in that period , I would be dead already , and you would n't need to listen to me But if you look at this as far as the medical profession and the insurance profession need each other , what happened to these people when they develop an infective condition ? |
| 4 | " I was born in this room , " he said . |
| 5 | I was born in this country in 1964 . |
| 6 | I 'm not really worried about that , seeing as I was born in this country , but what I do n't understand is why they should doubt me . |
| 7 | Yes , I , I was born in this house but er I do n't wish people to know er because er this is a funny world , I , I do n't know whether that 's being recorded I expect |
| 8 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 9 | I was sprinting in all the B League races for London Irish , winning all the time and getting fed up with it ; there was no real challenge . |
| 10 | I was ruled in those days by insecurity . |
| 11 | ‘ Surely you did n't think I was referring in any way to you ? ’ |
| 12 | If I was trained in that , I 've forgotten long since . |
| 13 | That 's where it made a difference but I was sticking in all the blinking week I 'll save that till he gets home but apart from |
| 14 | When I was writing in this magazine [ October 1987 ] about the troubles of the Flow Country in Sutherland ( christened then ‘ Britain 's Last Wilderness ’ ) , I suggested that the concept tends to devalue ‘ the presence of humans in remote areas and overvalue their contribution elsewhere . ’ |
| 15 | Along the way I was engaged in some of the startling ‘ business as usual ’ banking practices that have begun to plague the world financial system . |
| 16 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 17 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 18 | I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’ |
| 19 | I was approached in this room about erm , twelve months ago , by Francis and Tricia erm , to ask if I would make a programme out for their group . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to be a city worker , not an industrialist , ’ he said , ‘ but I was put in this group by my teacher . ’ |
| 21 | I was helped in this revision by one of my students , Brian Whitt . |
| 22 | To soften the blow I said it was only because I was held in such high esteem in the football world that I had to get rid of any player or , as in his case , friend , who showed any sign of being a no-hoper . |
| 23 | When I was sitting in that corridor there was one of the tutors on the phone , only for a short while |
| 24 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 25 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |
| 26 | or so I was told in all seriousness |
| 27 | I was encouraged in this by the good result of the experimental members ' evening in the 1990-1 programme , when half a dozen members gave excellent short talks . |
| 28 | I was encouraged in these views through my friendship with several members of the re-awakening liberal school of economists . |
| 29 | It still did n't hit me that within hours we would have a baby : I vaguely felt I was immersed in some surreal soap-dream that constantly receded back into itself . |
| 30 | And when you see them you can think , ah that would be same as what I was doing in that one , and you can work it out for yourselves . |