Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was invited a year or so later to the Royal Garden Party held in honour of the Queen Mother 's eightieth birthday , so there I was off again to London with a film crew in attendance . |
| 2 | I was called a Scab . |
| 3 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 5 | Yeah I was called a roamer find me . |
| 6 | DOS 3.3 had been installed on the hard disk but I was using a DOS 2.11 floppy ( supplied with the machine ) in drive A. Ctrl+Alt+Delete would n't work and the reset button booted the machine into drive A. |
| 7 | I felt that I was using a part of me that was n't used to functioning and I 've just recently started juggling |
| 8 | I mean , I was using a couple of grams a day , so I was still feeling bad withdrawal effects even after that two-month period . |
| 9 | I was using a figure of 1.5 million homes , but his figure is 1.9 million , half of which have gone from the council sector and the other half from the Government 's much-loved private rented sector . |
| 10 | I was using a hand-pump , and then an electric pump to stimulate my milk supply , although at first I was too distressed and unmotivated to do it as often as necessary and consequently did n't produce anything when I did pump . |
| 11 | And I had a slight mishap , the simplest thing in the world , really , when I was using a shovel in the calf house . |
| 12 | So that is another area that if I was to put a ban on imports |
| 13 | I did notice I was slipping a bit . |
| 14 | I was eating a lasagna and reading the latest number of Surfing when Pottz cruised in with his entourage . |
| 15 | Gray picks at a salad as she talks : ’ I did this one interview where I was eating a cheeseburger and this guy wrote all about the blob of ketchup oozing down my chin , ’ she says . |
| 16 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 17 | Well it was last night , I fell asleep , I was watching a film at the time . |
| 18 | I , I actually taped it and I was , I was watching a bit this morning before Jean came . |
| 19 | I was watching a hawk above the trees when suddenly I saw something move . |
| 20 | It seemed to me that I was watching a play . |
| 21 | I was watching a card trick one of the soldiers was showing me and did not look up until the cart had almost passed the window . |
| 22 | On the other hand , while I was watching a treecreeper , I noticed that , as it climbed obliquely around the trunk , its white throat and breast became very conspicuous . |
| 23 | have you seen that movie , it was on erm tt I was watching a programme the other day about it . |
| 24 | I COULD N'T tell whether I was watching a world title fight or Come Dancing last weekend . |
| 25 | And then I was dozing a bit and while we were watching like Arachnophobia we were we were still in bed but about four hours sleep just about . |
| 26 | The first time I came across the problem I was knitting a tuck stitch sweater . |
| 27 | ‘ I was knitting a jumper for Nora , ’ she said . |
| 28 | ‘ I was discussing a statistic I 'd heard that you 're more likely to be killed by a donkey than in an aeroplane disaster . |
| 29 | I was discussing a year for a normal peacetime lead time . |
| 30 | I was whistling a medley of Ellingtonia and keeping an eye out for a transport café for breakfast and feeling fairly pleased with myself . |