Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 2 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 3 | I was invited by two revolutionary movements , the Black Panthers and the Palestinians … . these two groups have a very strong erotic charge . |
| 4 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 5 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , come to think of it , I was detained on urgent business with a Catholic . |
| 7 | And I was looking for real ones this time . |
| 8 | know when I was looking for that |
| 9 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 10 | ‘ I was looking for new challenges , and Cassell as a large independent commercial publisher offers me the scope to publish a wide range of books in a commercial environment . ’ |
| 11 | I was looking for this blooming half thing sticking out ! |
| 12 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 13 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 14 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 15 | Celery seeds , I was looking for some of those yesterday . |
| 16 | I was looking for these and you got drunk and eat them ! |
| 17 | I was looking for Old Saul 's skull . |
| 18 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 19 | Yeah , I was looking at that myself yesterday actually and er if I include three , three Trident staff , erm there are thirty five individuals |
| 20 | from you and , and I was looking at that and ticking boxes and I was , I was almost not listening to what you were saying at times . |
| 21 | Ey I was looking at that one . |
| 22 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 23 | Yes , I , I was looking at that one just now . |
| 24 | I was looking at back pages of the tabloids this lunchtime and noticed that Steve Coppell is the favourite now . |
| 25 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |
| 26 | Er I was looking at these and er you get , you know , with the er a set of free |
| 27 | I was looking at some last night and they had erm privately owned cottages or |
| 28 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 29 | I was looking at this , and not at where I was putting my feet . |
| 30 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |