Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [pron] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't give me methadone , they just gave me I think it was 30 milligrams of Librium and two sleepers of a night time … . |
| 2 | Erm I I 'm not sure I need to look at the sheet I I thought it was ten when I looked . |
| 3 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 4 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 5 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 6 | Someone I knew who was interested in cars . ’ |
| 7 | Which they I you ken they were all all the houses would have about harvest time . |
| 8 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 9 | until yo you 're actually gon na do it , sort of thing which I thought it was interesting . |
| 10 | Last week I saw you in Suddenly Last Summer in which I thought you were incredible . |
| 11 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 12 | and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ? |
| 13 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 14 | And how the show was now funded , how tightly Paul Lexington was running his budget , what his break-even percentage of audience was , indeed how much of the audience was made up of paying theatre-goers and how much of free seats ; all these were questions to which he knew he was unlikely to get answers . |
| 15 | Told ya , I know when I were in hospital I had that stuff on me you know it were terrible even though it was |
| 16 | Wilson was immediately worried that the rooms she had ready would not be thought adequate , that indeed she did not know if she herself thought they were adequate , and that she would be unable to prepare meals in her feeble condition , but Miss Blagden laid to rest all her anxieties . |
| 17 | I am quite convinced that everyone we met there was each other 's cousin . |
| 18 | Was the one you mentioned who was ill one of them ? |
| 19 | We we did we were lucky enough to be in the position that we were working out of Ireland we were making a living without having to work in Ireland . |
| 20 | Akram added : ‘ I do n't know why they changed the ball but I am glad they did because the one they gave us was newer and in better condition than the previous one . ’ |
| 21 | If I had told him I wished he was dead he would have seen this as a palimpsest of desire , but I only wished that he was n't there . |
| 22 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 23 | ‘ When I first saw him I thought he was dead . |
| 24 | Y er er th they they kept him there , they they I think they were hopeful , they were hopeful that he being a republican from Ireland , that er he he c he c he could have been used , you know by the Nazis in er in their general propaganda , directed to Britain er with a Irish er slant on the situation , but er it 's quite clear that er that they were never able to use . |
| 25 | ‘ And I told him you said he was married and he says it is n't true . ’ |
| 26 | Southey 's seafaring brother , Tom , was an early recruit to the scheme , as was Southey 's widowed mother in Bath ( even though she told him she thought he was mad ) . |
| 27 | Deep within her she knew they were dead . |
| 28 | Then you , the way they spoke about him they thought he were brilliant ! |
| 29 | ‘ When I first met him he thought I was mad because I did n't eat meat . |
| 30 | I see from this school report you 've shown me it said there were fifty seven in your class |