Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 2 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 3 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 4 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 5 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 6 | the only thing I got was of Stella |
| 7 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 8 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 9 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 10 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 11 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 12 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 13 | The over-whelming impression I received was of a well-planned , organised operation where the human resources - always the most important part of any undertaking - are properly used . |
| 14 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |
| 15 | To cross the Atlantic in the early Fifties from the modest hopes of Britain to the United , Euphoric , You-name-it-they-had-it States was to court vertigo . |
| 16 | " The class to which I belonged was by no means the lowest . |
| 17 | ‘ The first time I remember was at home , ’ said Marian . |
| 18 | The last decent performance I remember was vs Stuttgart at Leeds . |
| 19 | One of the best suggestions I heard was to er change it to Channel Four . |
| 20 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 21 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 22 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 23 | The special food I fancied was of — all things — curry . |
| 24 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 25 | I had been trained in Mespot in the art of aerial survey by the Royal Engineers , which I felt was of no practical use to my squadron , thus I became the squadron photographic officer ( small p and small o ) . |
| 26 | I know I was lucky , my head and body having sustained a beating I felt was within an inch of my life . |
| 27 | ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’ |
| 28 | did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ? |
| 29 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 30 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |