Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the paragraph of which she complains I was briefly putting each side 's case as outlined to the inquiry . |
| 2 | I was previously commenting that Id like us to score another and break the 2 goal hoodoo . |
| 3 | I was simply given some down to earth instruction on techniques . |
| 4 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 5 | I was just thinking that way as well . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just playing each ball on its merits and hoping things went my way , ’ said Arthurton . |
| 7 | I was just letting that record finish . |
| 8 | Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north . |
| 9 | I was already doing this job and so I went back because there they were going there there 's a solicitor going to earn me erm er somewhere in the region of a hundred and seventy pound commission . |
| 10 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 11 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 12 | Assistant bar manager Sarah , 21 , said : ‘ I was always taught that honesty is the best policy . ’ |
| 13 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 14 | That was one reason why I was so exhausted that morning . |
| 15 | Or , as one of my students once put it to me , ironically , when I was still preaching this gospel , ‘ I know , Sir , it was racism what dun n it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was only thinking this morning in bed , that others never really knew what we shared . |
| 17 | Now , I was only thinking this morning when I was in your bathroom you 've got lots of bubble bath left over from Christmas . |
| 18 | Mozart reported to Constanze that Carl loved the opera ( which was also attended that night by his old enemy Salieri ) , and then went on to discuss the shortcomings of Carl 's education — just like any other anxious parent . |
| 19 | This was in part a response to an upsurge in militant opposition to food shortages and profiteering which was simultaneously driving many trade unionists into cooperation . |
| 20 | She sat down on the bench opposite to him and looked at his fat baby face , which was now showing some concern . |
| 21 | Then , at Imola , Niki again failed to finish — he was , I recall , disgusted with himself and with the engine , which was still having some teething problems — and Prost won . |
| 22 | Hefner himself was soon to develop this idea in his so-called ‘ Playboy Philosophy ’ at tedious length . |
| 23 | She was just boiling some water when the door opened and Julius walked in . |
| 24 | And , while she was still digesting that piece of information , he added , ‘ And I can think of dozens of things I 'd like to do , beginning with a kiss and ending — ’ He broke off and gave a faint grin . |
| 25 | She was never given any form of education , and spent much of her time secluded with her two sisters and her aunt , the Duchess of Rothesay . |
| 26 | This is the fourth exhibition with the gallery for Deacon who was also seen this year at Kassel 's Documenta IX and at the Carnegie International . |
| 27 | But the Lady 's other half , who was also signing that book today , does n't think it 's much to get worked up about . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was he who was truly destroying this place . |
| 29 | Richard Pryor ( who was never given another chance to explore this side of his acting ability ) , Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel star as the workers who attempt to break the chains that bind with a break-in at their corrupt union 's headquarters . |
| 30 | One was dearly asking some favour on behalf of a client : bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |