Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh dear , they all use to pull my blue leg when I was with them working , oh Old Sergeant name his name was , he was the M section , maintenance section in the Signals , M section , old , Sergeant |
| 2 | But you know I think certainly the shift I was with you know I er I was impressed . |
| 3 | two years ago when I was at we had the gas put into the hall . |
| 4 | But whereas my wife could have learnt in what direction I was from her had she heard me , there is nothing I can learn from it . |
| 5 | By this time the " All Clear " sounded and there was a certain amount of light by which I could plainly see I was in what appeared to be an MT parking lot , When the rear gunner returned he reported that we were in the Manston MT yard . |
| 6 | Cos we did n't want the four , th the ladies that she was with they knew what was happening but nobody else knew |
| 7 | How ready she was for him to fuck her . |
| 8 | Now she was in what seemed like a natural theatre , a deep , round hollow in the ground . |
| 9 | little practical work , whereas the group she was in you know , it was so many weeks of school but the majority |
| 10 | Undry was in her mind , shedding troubled surges of light through deep darkness ; what am I going to do ? she wondered , and knew it was beyond her to decide anything . |
| 11 | I had some guys come up , and they were , they were really pissed off with me because , my mum sort of like , this guy just done this with th th the stall next door , but he left some stuff that he obviously already had things of , which he did n't think it was worth him buying , and this guy came round , and they were obviously from one of these , you know how you get erm , secondhand erm record stores |
| 12 | ‘ He was charming , ’ she lied , and felt it was worth it to see him look relieved . |
| 13 | But it was worth it to keep the wolves from the door . |
| 14 | It was worth it to tell you what a toad you are . |
| 15 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 16 | And of course being as it was with everybody watching , we got applause for this . |
| 17 | I know , but you , last time it was on you said , ooh I would n't have minded seeing that . |
| 18 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 19 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 20 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 21 | Then you will also know how stupid it was of you to attempt to deceive us . ’ |
| 22 | Kind it was of you to bring the lass solid meat in this cold weather . |
| 23 | Her family wrote and said that Medau was Beryl 's whole life and what a great comfort it was to them to know she had so many loving friends . |
| 24 | No , it was for himself to protect his dallta , as usual . |
| 25 | They were her protectors , older , stronger , more clever and brave , and yet they had assumed it was for her to say what they were to do . |
| 26 | No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be . |
| 27 | The New York Herald headlined ‘ These Girl 's Do n't Drink , Smoke or Flirt ’ and printed an article , attributed to Mary , in which she explained how difficult it was for her to maintain discipline in a society where young girls were surrounded on every side by such bad examples of free and easy ways in all walks of life . |
| 28 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 29 | I knew it was for me to approach the Colonel again , rather than vice versa . |
| 30 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |