Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I , really just to see what , what everyone else was doing , I mean I was thinking of is a little |
| 2 | I mean I was thinking of making gingerbread |
| 3 | Oh that 's shame cos I what about , I mean I was thinking of erm , John sa , John , you know Andrew 's brother ? |
| 4 | But I mean I was thinking like as well cos like we did taxes like a few weeks ago did n't we , and the tax that the government get off that race , I mean seventy five million on the whole race , |
| 5 | Well , as near as possible because , erm , I mean I was appointed to , to Africa while I was still in college |
| 6 | I mean I was listening to one of the tapes last night . |
| 7 | I mean I was reading in the paper the other day it was on about recycling |
| 8 | Well I mean I was saying to this bloke well can you think of anywhere where we might be able to , oh no no no ca n't think of anywhere . |
| 9 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 10 | Yeah , I mean I was gon na say there 's |
| 11 | Yeah , I mean I was gon na go , one Sutton Partisans , one for the |
| 12 | Say I was dealing with one of our gougers , I come down to [ his ] level . |
| 13 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing much else , really , as you can see from what I told the Brigadier — except that , whatever 's happened , I 've got nothing to do with it — I expect she was attracted by the light in my window if she was lost . ’ |
| 15 | Friends and colleagues say she was motivated by what she saw as cruelty in the meat trade . |
| 16 | After several years doing the rounds of St Vincent Place she was spotted as someone with an aptitude for the executive floor . |
| 17 | If A Song to David , in which he attempted a new and regular form of the ode , was written on an upswing of creativity at the beginning of a psychotic episode , and the psalms translation made during convalescence afterwards , Jubilate Agno is particularly important because its internal dates strongly suggest it was composed during his confinement , and from day to day of his illness , during the period 27 July to 30 January 1763 , just before his release . |
| 18 | Indeed , highly finished details and the gentle lines of the face coupled with the oval base suggest it was designed as a cabinet piece . |
| 19 | Pity he was born in England . |
| 20 | Labelled DNA fragments were prepared by digestion with Hin dIII , labelled with α-[ 32 P ] dATP using reverse transcriptase and cut again with either Eco R1 or Sac I. Since the insert A 9 GCT 9 contains an internal Hin dIII site it was labelled at the Eco R1 end followed by cutting with Pst I. The labelled fragments of interest were separated from the remainder of the plasmid on 7% polyacrylamide gels . |
| 21 | ‘ I expect it was owned by a Frenchman , ’ Flora said . |
| 22 | ‘ It could n't have been entirely secret since you say it was reported in the papers . |
| 23 | And the police say he was believed to be an associate of Keith Hanger . |
| 24 | , writes : TWICE in recent weeks I have heard of a character which sounds like Notre Dames and they say he was played in a film by Orson Welles . |
| 25 | Now well let's have a look at this horse and another schedule because as I say he was trained in Ireland by Arthur and er we saw them at Punchestown back in April where he finished second to another of his rivals today Bishops Hall . |
| 26 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 27 | The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect , tortured and shot in cold blood . |
| 28 | How long did daddy say he was gon na be Francis ? |
| 29 | He is not a man who courts company , often cutting a solitary and somewhat broody figure , but colleagues say he was frustrated by his lack of opportunities with England in the winter and , more recently , by his inability to build big innings for Middlesex . |
| 30 | ‘ If by that remark you mean you hope I was thrashed within an inch of my life , then I have to disappoint you . |