Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 That was him putting them through was n't it ?
2 And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it .
3 All she forgot to tell you about was the killing of forty-seven Jews . ’
4 Another thing I was gon na ask you about was erm I 'd heard somebody mention ploughing competitions with horses .
5 we , you see , and she of was often pottering in her garden
6 The lurching nausea his earlier stories taunted you into was replaced with the deep , sick shock of grief : the loss of a child .
7 The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) .
8 The room they took me into was walled with white tiles and bright with fluorescent lighting .
9 Not unless B S I we to were to exs , expect to see that we have audited everything before they came .
10 It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue .
11 Corbett was worried as the silver Burnell had furnished him with was nearly gone .
12 That she 'd had no husband , that the only man she 'd ever seen her with was — David Harland .
13 The décor of the room he showed her into was a complete contrast to that of the sitting-room , but just as garish .
14 The small living-room she took him into was made even smaller by the amount of stuff she had in there .
15 She had passed him once or twice , fleetingly , in the corridor , when all he had subjected her to was a brief ‘ good morning ’ .
16 Such thoughts were poor stimulus for a conscience-stricken appetite , and although the restaurant which Ven took her to was smart , and the food good , Fabia was able to eat only little .
17 Well , before the invention of sound recording — and indeed for some time after — the only thing people could compare it with was stenography .
18 The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving .
19 What I tried to teach people was that if we did n't increase the added value , but took more of it and put it in our pockets , the only place we could take it from was the glass marked reinvestment and that makes people unemployed quicker than anything — and permanently .
20 There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse .
21 One of the places he sent it to was Happy Towers in Edgbaston in Birmingham , which was a Mecca ballroom , and that was the first gig we did , complete with a revolving stage and everything .
22 The only format that looked appropriate to save it to was ‘ tiff ’ .
23 The first place they sent us to was a parish in the East End .
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