Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 32 | Yes I was looking around for your dog |
| 33 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 34 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 35 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 36 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 37 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 38 | It was late and I was looking down at Chung Kuo , wondering what lay ahead . |
| 39 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 40 | I was looking down at her , brown knees drawn up to her chin and the open V of her shirt showing the round of her breasts , even the pinking of the nipple circles . |
| 41 | I felt I was looking down into my own grave . |
| 42 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 43 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 44 | They 're watching t Oh I , I was messing about with Tony so I , I flashed me skirt , flashed me knees . |
| 45 | So anyway , I did n't even hear anymore what he said after that , after he said this like so I was messing about with Graham |
| 46 | That 's why I was messing about with the . |
| 47 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 48 | I was padded up with me mate and she says I just went weird . |
| 49 | I appreciate that in that respect I was drifting out of order . |
| 50 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 51 | So I was turned down in my own county town in favour of a stranger … |
| 52 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 53 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 54 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 55 | And , I was prattling on to your dad , saying when we claimed it back when we claimed it back we 'll bring it early but |
| 56 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 57 | Sorry , I was dozing off over there . |
| 58 | I was wadded along with my fellows into a container and then — darkness . |
| 59 | ‘ I was dragged up down Monkey Park , went to school wi' me arse hanging out ; I 've worked for everything I 've got . ’ |
| 60 | I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before . |