Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was friends with him for a week and he was very eloquent . |
| 2 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 3 | I was seconds behind you , entering the hole , but I 've only just arrived . |
| 4 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 6 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 7 | ‘ He gave me so much — quite apart from sexual fulfilment , which was part of it , and a very exciting and wonderful part because he taught me so much about sex . ’ |
| 8 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 9 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 10 | He was part of her ; she was part of him . |
| 11 | She was home to him , even after all the other women . |
| 12 | Perversely , she was cross with him for having survived when she had spent the weekend fretting . |
| 13 | She was sort of she was sort of erm a bit snobbish . |
| 14 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 15 | ‘ If he had any idea of what she was doing for us , MoD does n't want it spread around . |
| 16 | No , th there was loads of them ! |
| 17 | There wa , there was parents with them , |
| 18 | There was darkness below me ; above me , yet more darkness . |
| 19 | It claimed there was friction between her and the Prince 's friend , Camilla Parker Bowles . |
| 20 | They were separate , there was space between them , but , like flowers in a vase , they were all standing in the same water . |
| 21 | He was still holding my arm but there was space between us . |
| 22 | Provost John Cunningham admitted that Main had not possessed a commission as watchman and was indeed an extraordinary officer employed only when there was work for him to perform , but there seems little reason to doubt that Main 's removal was intended to serve the political interest of the Haldanes , for his removal was not an isolated case , and , moreover , when the Hamilton salt works resumed operations the excise supervisors did not in fact restore Main to his old post , but appointed an individual named Curinan to the vacancy . |
| 23 | See there was part of it you 've got er you 've got to have somebody with you . |
| 24 | There was panic in her , not far beneath the surface . |
| 25 | Anyway , there was promotion in it : when we next come across him , less than a year later , he has risen to the giddy heights of master , taking over from William Cox . |
| 26 | There was straw and an old woven blanket some herdsman had left there , with a heap of tools ; it smelt savoury and sharp inside , like the smell of a birth ; she was melting , the light blinked around him , and there was sheepskin under them ; her name , which she found carved on the stone , carved by him during vigils while he waited for her there in the days before she could come , was edged in light . |
| 27 | ‘ May I observe that this is a rather strange sort of idleness … ’ and he went on to admit that , although it was difficult for him to defend his present way of life , there was purpose in it , even if that purpose was an obscure one . |
| 28 | For there was tenderness in him , no doubt about that , Lisa reflected as they reached the foot of the path and headed across the rocky moonlit beach , his arm around her waist as though nothing could be more natural . |
| 29 | I told her I had a job for Duncan and there was money in it and that was enough for her to yell ‘ Duncan ! ’ so loud I felt I heard it without the need of the phone . |
| 30 | He wrote to Sheldon , ‘ My folly and forwardness hath wrought my trouble ; but yet there was zeal in it , and I thought there was much reason , and I am sure I intended piously , and there are very many that still do think so . ’ |