Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 2 | I was sent on with a minute to go and never touched the ball . |
| 3 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 4 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 5 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 6 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |
| 7 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 8 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 9 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 10 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
| 11 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 12 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 13 | I was taken on as a staff programme researcher for " Here Today " , Salary : £1,100 . |
| 14 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 15 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 16 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 17 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 18 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 19 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 20 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 22 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 23 | I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself . |
| 24 | I was knocked down by a car and very nearly died . |
| 25 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 26 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 27 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 28 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 29 | I was trussed up like a chicken for roasting . |
| 30 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |