Example sentences of "was and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't help notice how pretty , charming and intelligent she was and we just clicked . |
| 2 | Erm I would like to formally second Mr because I followed a situation where the previous minister had baptised anyone and when I arrived I discussed with the session what our policy on baptism was and we concurred that we should follow the nineteen sixty three law but apply it under grace and with the spirit of God in mind and we had some very difficult situations when people said to me no I have no time for God in my life but I want you to baptise my baby . |
| 3 | I think it does happen in China , I think it happened in the early part of the Russian revolution before Stalin was and we had communism with . |
| 4 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 5 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 6 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 7 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 8 | I mean t to for the cooking that they did for a pub it was and we had duckling and salmon , poached |
| 9 | I suppose it was and we had to tidy it all up afterwards |
| 10 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 11 | I I went there for something and my car ooh I think it was and we had , you know |
| 12 | Well in the other house we had , we had like an airing cupboard here and we took that out and had a shower where the airing cupboard was and we would of had |
| 13 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 14 | Cos no one was and we opened up all the post that came . |
| 15 | In the local elections their share of the vote was and they did very very well . |
| 16 | inch by two and you had to tell these dockers what size it was and they 'd take it out of that particular stack . |
| 17 | I used to walk along there to see these rabbits I think the name was and they , it was a barber 's shop that had got these sold all sorts of pet things and that I used to , then I used to come home that was my Saturday morning , but I always used to go in up to the news line . |
| 18 | The Black Bull , Boroughbridge it was wonderful really was and they treat us really , and I mean it was n't expensive and I had sa fresh salmon and duckling and oh then I |
| 19 | And the wo mind you , he 's much too heavy for me but of course , well my father was and they 're arm things but I must get some fresh . |
| 20 | even if the church was And they 've cut all the side , the other side , Church Street they 've cut all the hedge of the church down there and dumped all the grass inside , no not the grass , the branches , inside well you 'd think they 'd get a blooming lorry or a van to take it all down the blooming tip would n't you ? |
| 21 | I asked three teachers where she was and they said she was n't in |
| 22 | you fill out a little sheet of paper with the , with the names like John A , John B or whatever , so that if there 's another tape and you 've marked John B and they missed a word , or what what the word was and they there 's a chance that they might use it again later on you see . |
| 23 | So he got out and he looked underneath and the drive shaft had fell off so he got it towed back to the garage wherever this garage was and they had a look at it and all the head were loose you could waggle them about ! |
| 24 | That 's where my dad was and they made my mother |
| 25 | It was and they say go and we always run out and hide a find some decent position . |
| 26 | I could n't think what it was and me erm |
| 27 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 28 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 29 | Poor old Beatrice began by wanting to show how self-denying and supportive Ellen Ash was and she messed around looking up every recipe for gooseberry jam and every jaunt to Broadstairs for twenty-five years , can you believe it , and woke up to find that no one wanted self-denial and dedication any more , they wanted proof that Ellen was raging with rebellion and pain and untapped talent . |
| 30 | But whatever the reason behind it , if there was a reason and it was n't simply someone shaking up names in a box and picking one out here and there , it was like banging your head against a brick wall to attempt to fight against Movement Orders — here she was and she had to make the best of it . |