Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 2 | It was as if an addictive drug had been withdrawn and I was faced with the reality of life and had forgotten what to do with it . |
| 3 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 4 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 5 | I 'd gone into Woolworth 's in Reading and stolen a couple of things from there , and I was hanging around the car park . |
| 6 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 7 | My name is Aled Pierce and I was born in the on November the eighth nineteen ten . |
| 8 | My employment with CBC began at the salary of $150. per month which was very acceptable , and I was assigned to the newly created post as Talks Producer . |
| 9 | No sooner had I thrown it into the toilet than it exploded and I was spattered with the pan 's contents . |
| 10 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 11 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 12 | Now this — Ruth Cohen and her stolen file , and I was filled with the same strange , tingling excitement . |
| 13 | I excelled at no sports at all , preferring instead to be one of the boys who was allowed to use the lawn mowers and keep the garden in trim — my one attempt at cricket was a disaster , and I was sent off the field for not paying attention . |
| 14 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 15 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 16 | And I was looking through the videos there . |
| 17 | We were nearly on the beach and I was looking over the side of the ship . |
| 18 | There were a lot of distractions , and I was looking for the . |
| 19 | We went to this very flash restaurant and I was really nervous , you know the feeling — anyway blood was rushing , and I was looking at the menu — my French is pretty good — and I thought I 'd fancy a pork cutlet . |
| 20 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 21 | Campaign on a what do you call it and erm and funny enough I was reading the Campaign yesterday and I was looking at the er thing and they 've got a sale on have n't they ? |
| 22 | And I was looking at the drills , and |
| 23 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth , East ( Mr. Atkinson ) made an eloquent speech about compulsory competitive tendering ; and I was heartened by the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) also realised that we were talking not about compulsory contracting out but about compulsory competitive tendering , which means that there is an opportunity for the in-house team to make a bid . |
| 25 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
| 26 | And I was thinking of the future . ’ |
| 27 | and I was thinking of the benefactor who actually offered this er |
| 28 | And I was inspired by the size of the contribution they were clearly destined to make . |
| 29 | Anticipating the harsh lighting in our room , Leslie had brought with him some candles , and I was touched by the romantic tenderness of the gesture . |
| 30 | And I was reading about the conditions . |