Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you obviously had a you did say such a lot of in the Radio Times somewhere I was reading today about er colours you wear . |
| 2 | Sean Curtis , TSB Head of Marketing , states : ‘ We had entered into negotiations with Mark McCormack 's IMG company in February of this year and a couple of months later everything was finalised . |
| 3 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 4 | In six weeks they were married , and ten months later I was born . ’ |
| 5 | A few months later I was sitting at a table opposite three Foreign Office officials . |
| 6 | One evening two months later I was sitting in my laboratory . |
| 7 | Eight months later it was announced that Nagy and his colleagues were to be rehabilitated . |
| 8 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 9 | At an in-service course which she led three months later it was proposed and agreed that a working party should be set up to produce a draft policy for links with parents and the community . |
| 10 | Six months before she was due to be released she was assessed for admission to a special hospital , at the request of the prison psychiatrist ; two months later she was transferred to Moss Side hospital . |
| 11 | 6 months later she was readmitted with pneumonia . |
| 12 | Several months later she was arrested for climbing the scaffolding and smashing a window at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square . |
| 13 | Initially Miss T. continued to live with her father , but six months later she was removed by her mother without her father 's consent . |
| 14 | Two months later he was appointed to the recently built Selimiye ( Selim II ) medrese in Edirne , the newest and perhaps at least temporarily the most important of the imperial medreses , from which he nevertheless resigned after only two months , unwilling to accept , in Ata'i 's words , by which he means , presumably , the transfer to Edirne . |
| 15 | At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war some months later he was recalled to Germany ; he served as a stretcher-bearer in the army of the Loire and was wounded . |
| 16 | Three months later he was crowned German King at Bonn . |
| 17 | Four and a half months later he was freed on parole , the only member of Charlie Company to have been convicted . |
| 18 | Six months later he was assumed a partner in T. & A. Constable , Thistle Street , Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Nine months later he was knighted with four other High Court judges . |
| 20 | Two months later he was fined a further £100 and banned from the touchline until the end of that season for remarks to a linesman during a game at Dundee United . |
| 21 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 22 | And three months later he was quoted in an Arab newspaper as comparing Israel to South Africa . |
| 23 | Five months later he was found dead in his garage , having hanged himself . |
| 24 | Months later he was to admit : ‘ Do n't you realize , Jim , I was just egging you on all the time ? |
| 25 | Three months later he was seized with chest pain , but because he had been told that his coronary artery was normal he developed an irresistible desire to chop wood . |
| 26 | Erm a few months back I was interviewing someone who lived in the area all their life and she said that the Sikh temple had distributed some E E C erm butter I think it was . |
| 27 | She dressed trimly for work ; neat white blouse , tight black skirt , bright seventeen-year-old eyes : no ladders in her tights now she was settled and happy . |
| 28 | Several months ago she was enticed back to the Lion in partnership with Mr Ashworth . |
| 29 | Three months ago he was brought into the Saint Tiggywinkles animal sanctuary at Haddenham in Buckinghamshire . |
| 30 | ‘ Some months ago I was convicted of embezzling a considerable amount of money from the company I share with my brother . |