Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was early and made my way slowly through the deserted canyon of skyscrapers on this hot afternoon . |
| 32 | Her brother was disgusted and called her a filthy collaborator , but at least the Englishman was safe . |
| 33 | Two was blurry and made her anxious . |
| 34 | The moulding was hard and marked him for life . |
| 35 | The dress was white and covered me all over except for my eyes . |
| 36 | They took the baby and I remember asking if it was okay and did I have a boy or a girl . |
| 37 | I told 'im I was gettin' over me wounds an' 'e said the work was 'ard an' did I fink I could manage it . |
| 38 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 39 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 40 | Would I be away at any time , when was ill or needed his mummy ? |
| 41 | It was despairing and made him uneasy for a long time afterwards . |
| 42 | But my mother-in-law was suspicious and asked us , so we had to tell her we were using condoms . |
| 43 | But since she was comfortable and occupied she felt no need to take the advantage of her freedom . |
| 44 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 45 | At the time er did did you think that was unusual or did you accept it ? |
| 46 | Another example which serves to illustrate this view of citizenship as apolitical is the decision taken by a Conservative-controlled local authority , Barnet , in 1987 to refuse to allow political groups such as CND or Amnesty International to take part in a community festival ( the Court of Appeal found that this decision was unlawful and struck it down , too late to save the festival ) . |
| 47 | But he was crafty and buried his chin in my shoulder . ’ |
| 48 | She was stricken and missed him terribly , but she would n't show it in public . |
| 49 | Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something . |
| 50 | Lincoln was intrigued and started his quest , which resulted in the three television programmes and his book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail . |
| 51 | The layout was powerful and grabbed your attention . |
| 52 | He said he 'd just come back from Amsterdam and he had tried some and said it was great and did I know where he could get some . |
| 53 | Though I was tired and begged you to leave off . |
| 54 | The judge was impressed but reckoned it was in the wrong section . |
| 55 | Ritschl was impressed and urged him to turn the paper into an article for publication . |
| 56 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 57 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 58 | In Sheffield he was homesick and missed his girl friend . |
| 59 | The man decided Tim was queer and made it clear he did n't tolerate those too easily . |
| 60 | Lydia thought that the harm done to us all on being born was irreversible but held her tongue . |