Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seen one woman and she had a police uniform on , so obviously I knew it was the police . |
| 2 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 3 | Apparently they thought it was the cleaning heads by the , the heads of it , I do n't know , I know nothing about it . |
| 4 | Perhaps he thought I was the impersonator , dressed as a man , hoping to win his confidence and thus learn the kind of mannerisms and opinions he might reveal only in private . |
| 5 | Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car . |
| 6 | Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead |
| 7 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 8 | Probably we felt they were the sort of client that we wanted or that there was already er a connection that we had er or there was a particular service that we thought we could offer and penetrate them in that way . |
| 9 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 10 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 11 | Well I thought it was the forced |
| 12 | Well I think it was the discipline that you 'd got in those days . |
| 13 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 14 | That 's right and I believe , well I think he was the first goalkeeper to throw the ball out . |
| 15 | Er in the way that they and they sort of well I suppose it was the situation in which the quarries you know sort of or and . |
| 16 | And Jenny just talking about , you know , well you know it was the sort of stuff that one talks about . |
| 17 | Yeah so please your worships it was the twenty first of June in the morning when the police officer was on duty on the Aces Accrington at Worley he had occasion to stop the vehicle which was being driven by Mr and he noticed that the excise licence which was being displayed had in fact , expired at the end of March . |
| 18 | may please Your Worships it was the twenty first of June in the morning when the police officer was on duty on the A six eight , the Acrington road to Worley . |
| 19 | He had carte blanche as long as he revived our fortunes — luckily he knew I was the station 's biggest asset . |
| 20 | And er you know , the different er things they can tell you just how l old a thing th And then I think they were the sort of the fashion Er you know they were first in the fashion trade to introduce these sort of things you know . |
| 21 | When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't . |
| 22 | It 's only then you say you were the person who telephoned . |
| 23 | At first she thought it was the sea , but then she saw it was the pool of tears . |
| 24 | And they put it on back to front and so she keeps on putting her watch on upside down , she goes and I was feeling dead sick and then it realised it was the stupid cow at the shop with |
| 25 | half nine that 's why I thought it was the garage door . |
| 26 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 27 | Wherever she went it was the same story . |