Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I detected a faint smile on his lips , but I did not smile back because my heart was in a turmoil . |
| 2 | My story was about a girl who finds a bedraggled kitten who is really a king . |
| 3 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 4 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 5 | I 'm sitting there , my foot was near the toilet , all you see was this big claws come out digging into my toe there 's me aargh ! you stupid She 's mad ! |
| 6 | The block is three storeys high and my apartment was on the second floor . |
| 7 | Did I mention , by the way , that my money was on the Croat to win the Men 's Singles ? |
| 8 | There 'd be just us two , see cos all the others they was out , my sister was on the round |
| 9 | My basement was like a swimming pool . |
| 10 | In fact , my level was under the lowest measurement given , which is 3.1 . |
| 11 | My jaw was on the carriage floor the first time I took the train to Mallaig . |
| 12 | My apprenticeship was in a shop for a year working and adapting and changing and getting an understanding of it all . |
| 13 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |
| 14 | My mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed . |
| 15 | I was keept there for seven months , and so my edication was worth no less than three shillin and sixpence — there 's for " ee ! |
| 16 | After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library . |
| 17 | My car was in the air , flying … |
| 18 | My cell was on the ground floor — slightly below the level of the ground , in fact , so that the window had afforded me , on occasion , a view of a warder 's waist , belt , keys , and truncheon , as he marched by . |
| 19 | Parents ( and much of my work was in the poorer areas of the inner city ) were better informed . |
| 20 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 21 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 22 | My body was in the dining-room . |
| 23 | So well , I always remember it cos my missus was in the White Hart , she was telling me about it . |
| 24 | My room was over the back door and it squeaked like a murdered rat . |
| 25 | My room was on the landward side of Chapuis , so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart . |
| 26 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 27 | Yes , I 'm a resident of Standlake and erm my husband was on the working party for Standlake when this was last proposed . |
| 28 | My husband was in the fields and he saw them blow up our new house . |
| 29 | Mm , I came to Harlow with my parents , when my husband was in the Air Force |
| 30 | : My husband was in the Royal Air Force and we were living in a flat in Singapore . |