Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many black adolescents I talked to were conscious of the differences between their own Creole and their parents ' . |
| 2 | Only a minority of teachers I spoke to were interested in the way of life of their Asian pupils and an even smaller number knew anything about it . |
| 3 | The gentleman I spoke with was unaware that light aircraft ADF equipment was unable to tune to the half kHz and seemed quite surprised to learn this . |
| 4 | Yeah , the clothes I had on was identical to that of P C . |
| 5 | Berry explained : ‘ We got into base camp with the group of trekkers on May 8 and one of the first people I ran into was Krishchaty , just by chance . |
| 6 | The thing that perturbed him slightly , though , was that most of the men she talked to were young rather than old . |
| 7 | To our philosophy teacher , Professor John Macmurray , I owed the perception that my chosen trade was a treacherous one if what you looked for was strict objectivity . |
| 8 | What she died of was acute liver failure . ’ |
| 9 | Some of the places we went to were absolute tips — paper peeling off the walls , damp patches on the ceilings — and video just glosses over it all . ’ |
| 10 | People we spoke to were undecided . |
| 11 | Some residents we spoke to were frightened to talk publicly for fear of reprisals . |
| 12 | COSI is thought to be part of a much broader technology effort now coming together that will likely involve IBM too in some way , though no-one we spoke to was prepared to elaborate further for fear of upsetting delicate negotiations . |
| 13 | Nobody we spoke to was prepared to comment . |
| 14 | ‘ Scientific ’ tests for cognition can be conducted not on social groups and individuals as such , with all the political implications that involves , but on a newly constructed , asocial category of ‘ literates ’ and ‘ non-literates ’ , as though the culture they belonged to were incidental . |
| 15 | In the second bay starting from the western end , northern side and up to the gangway , was H. Webb 's black gang , so called because everything they dealt with was black in colour . |
| 16 | The table they sat at was wrought iron , with a bright brass guard-rail running round the top of it , more of a danger to glasses than anything else . |
| 17 | Yet everything he talked of was clear and at the tip of his tongue . |
| 18 | The guy he spoke to was American . |
| 19 | The table he sat at was circular and made of pine or what Hilbert and Adam 's father had called deal . |