Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but I say it , I was just using that as an example of how it brought it home to me how easy it is to get in . |
| 2 | I was just saying that during the course of today I hope you 'll complete a questionnaire . |
| 3 | I was just saying that to Dad here this morning . ’ |
| 4 | I was just saying that in that respect there 's not really much between John Major and Margaret Thatcher |
| 5 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 6 | I was once deceived as to the value of counterpoint . |
| 7 | LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor . |
| 8 | In practice , the planning system is being used to settle disputes between neighbours in a way which was never intended and for which it is not designed . |
| 9 | The events of the last year had left her mentally drained while she was physically exhausted because of her chronic illness . |
| 10 | Her life is described over at least two pages and is very dramatic — she lived in Italy where she was much courted because of her great beauty but she eventually married ‘ the very worst of those who sought her hand ’ — Paulo Neroni . |
| 11 | Ironically , Johnson 's lawless image endeared as much as it repelled. he was obviously a player who was easily unhinged but in the odd chemistry of Scotland 's footballing psyche , his recklessness made him a dangerous but likeable rogue . |
| 12 | Most years this gave rise to no special problem , but eventually there was an occasion when the king 's enjoyment of the Easter Feast was spoilt by the absence of his queen , who was still fasting because for her it was Palm Sunday . |
| 13 | One was soon found and at a special meeting of the Governors on 26th February Mr. C. G. Higginson , a graduate of the University of London , was appointed at a salary of £5 a week , to be paid by Hamilton . |
| 14 | There was nowhere to sit but on the narrow bed beside the fireplace . |
| 15 | But even if magnetic fields could confine the wind , the hot gas pressure would be expected to build until it was episodically released as in a pressure cooker . |
| 16 | As a little compensation I begged Captain King to let us remove either to Bruny , or to Muscle Bay , which would make very little difference when once the wind set in fair , and it was accordingly settled that at daylight we should sail for Muscle Bay . ’ |
| 17 | This was forgotten by the draftsman in British Railways Board v Elgar House Ltd ( 1969 ) 209 EG 1313 , where it was nevertheless held that for the purposes of the rent calculation parts of the demised property occupied by the headtenant should be deemed to be let at a rack rent . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it was officially reported that on Aug. 17 three Croatian police helicopters which had been dispatched to Gracac , a town near Knin where Serbs had taken over the police station and were distributing arms , had been intercepted en route by two Yugoslav air force jets and forced back to base . |
| 19 | It was generally agreed that in any case it would be very difficult to achieve because very few areas were in fact exclusively inhabited by any one of the three communities . |
| 20 | It was generally supposed that in the days of wheel spinning six spinners were needed to keep a weaver at work , and the area around the centres of cloth manufacture within which spinning was put out was so much more extensive than that in which the weaving was undertaken that spinning was done " almost everywhere " . |
| 21 | For in accepting that age and , more importantly , insanity could influence the degree of individuals ' responsibility for their actions it was also accepting that in some cases , and to some extent at least , human actions could be seen as determined . |
| 22 | It was also stated that in future , the Penge routes would be operated by sixteen cars , eight with regenerative equipment and eight without , but all would have track brakes as required by the Board of Trade for Anerley Hill . |
| 23 | There was , then , unanimous agreement that the overriding function of the continuation schools was to prepare their pupils for ‘ the efficient discharge of the duties of citizenship ’ , but it was also understood that in order to make this viable , young people had to be taught to ‘ increase their adaptability and skill in bread-winning occupations ’ . |
| 24 | With regard to day space this has been agreed on a provision of 4m2 per patient and it was also suggested that in addition to providing that space for each resident , there should be extra space to accommodate 2 day patients per sub section . |
| 25 | It was also submitted that in deciding whether the agreement created a tenancy or a licence , the court should ignore the Rent Acts . |
| 26 | It was also alleged that in January 1989 Isaac Jesner , a Jarrad director , had indicated to David Jesner that Jarrad 's capital would be used to pay off Jesner 's debts . |
| 27 | It was also rumoured that in the late 1970s or early 1980s the Commission had sold Mark Wood and Latton Wood in Essex to the then Harlow New Town Corporation , because of slow growth and dieback attributed to air pollution . |
| 28 | But it was also claimed that in the late 1970s certain telephones were tapped irrespective of any industrial dispute . |
| 29 | The results substantiated this and it was also found that at deeper levels of processing , ‘ No ’ answers were less commonly recognised than ‘ Yes ’ answers . |
| 30 | A second reason for doubting that genes were made of DNA was that proteins are chemically much more interesting , and it was already known that at least some genetic abnormalities are caused by the absence of specific proteins . |