Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 2 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 3 | I was emotionally prepared because I had just had what seemed to me then an incredibly traumatic experience . |
| 4 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 5 | In that first week , Dulcie was planning a programme of ballets with the school , and I was immediately cast as Kostchei — almost entirely a mime role — in her own version of The Firebird , called Russian Tale . |
| 6 | That 's when I was finally diagnosed as having Acne Vulgaris . ’ |
| 7 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 8 | Early in August , after sending the department a recorded delivery letter every month from January , I was finally informed that my husband would be granted his claim — but they could n't make the payment yet because they had lost his file . |
| 9 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 10 | There was then more silence , and I was later told that the Microwriter company had been improving the Agenda system . |
| 11 | I was practically born and raised on a surfboard . |
| 12 | It seemed that he would n't be kind when I was ill , but only when I was badly behaved and unpleasant to him . |
| 13 | Sometimes , when I was downstairs cooking or reading , I imagined I heard a piano playing , so keenly did I feel Montaine 's presence . |
| 14 | IT IS not every day , at my age , that I am asked to go into a dark cupboard with a man , so I was both flattered and cautious on doing so . |
| 15 | At first , I was again summoned and warned , ‘ If you want to make a scandal out of it , it 'll get worse ’ . |
| 16 | I only just reached my study before I was again burning and freezing with the violent passions of Hyde . |
| 17 | Phil Andrews was in command of Valiant two years later when Filden I was again intercepted and found to be attempting to smuggle a large quantity of cigarettes . |
| 18 | Basically the full time I was in basic training and when I went to the Regimental the Royal Highl Fusiliers Regiment the first battalion , I was physically beaten and mentally tortured er into the same bargain . |
| 19 | It used to get to the point where I was completely shattered but I would n't ask her to take over and yet she would n't offer . |
| 20 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 21 | I was rather wondering if we might not arrange a meeting . |
| 22 | I was fundamentally hurt and hitting back . |
| 23 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 24 | while I was richly lined and supple , |
| 25 | I was simply told that I had no vocation . |
| 26 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 27 | When I think that up until last night I was even hoping that I might look at you and wonder what it had all been about — that I 'd feel nothing ! |
| 28 | And er I was well known if I might say and proud of this Michael . |
| 29 | It was blustery and there was the constant peppering by grit , but I was well protected and enjoyed watching the storm . |
| 30 | So , I was just leaving when I saw them , the five inch heel , crossover ankle strap , glacé kid , suedetrimmed ridiculous ! |