Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
| 2 | The food in the Gasthof Widman where I was staying was remarkable . |
| 3 | However , the supplementary benefit that he was receiving was deductible from the figure awarded as damages . |
| 4 | So we actually wrote down erm th the equipment that we were buying was ours until paid for in full . |
| 5 | Then he read an article somewhere which said that the point of tasting a wine before it was poured was not to see if you liked it , but to make sure that it was n't corked . |
| 6 | But er the things that they were doing were just unbelievable . |
| 7 | One feature of the Antares that gained it a helpful blast of publicity when it was launched was the novel electronic throttle . |
| 8 | Resistance might have been easier if he had been , not that her belief that he was had been enough to stop her succumbing to him once . |
| 9 | big scarf and you were made were n't you ? |
| 10 | Well you were wagging your tail when you were barking were n't you ? |
| 11 | All that was found in the tomb chamber when it was excavated was the apparently hasty , late burial in a pit under the floor of an old man and a child . |
| 12 | When we arrested people , if we arrested them and if they were in the police station for many hours , the only food that they were given was supplied by Weavers Restaurant , just inside Street . |
| 13 | ‘ The decision to deploy horses and the way that they were used was perfectly proper . |
| 14 | Okay so the problem that you were having was differentiation and integration . |
| 15 | The problem that he was having was that she was his legal wife 's sister and there was some rivalry or jealousy developing between his legal wife and er this other girl and he was n't sure what he what to do about it . |
| 16 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 17 | Loren seemed to have desperation in her eyes , and the good time that she was having was a fierce one . |
| 18 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 19 | The agreement when it was signed was full of loopholes . |
| 20 | During the days I go and see my friends , most of the people who were at the hotel at the same time as I was have been moved up here . |
| 21 | Each house as it was completed was allotted to a member either by ballot or auction . |