Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw your light was on and I thought you ought to know . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , but that means — if that desk light was on and I got up and started to accelerate towards it , the light goes blue . |
| 3 | Lo and behold , when I got to court , this old lady was there and I felt so ashamed and so sorry for her . |
| 4 | The reason I packed in the charity job was n't because I did n't sympathise . |
| 5 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
| 6 | But my father was here before I came . |
| 7 | In the pinewoods below the cliff the air was still and I remember being distinctly intimidated by the size of Raven Rock , where our first tick of the day was to be found . |
| 8 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 9 | If the world was not as I perceived it then it was possible that I was not damned . |
| 10 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 11 | And erm our local er press was there and I think he went away and phoned up straight away t to Quix and said , Oh well you know they were twenty five to thirty women in Blaenau I never you know sort of their not your usual erm politicals if you like you know they just . |
| 12 | The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little . |
| 13 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |
| 14 | Cos ever , like my mum and my brother were in when I got home . |
| 15 | Creamstick 's house was just as I 'd pictured : |
| 16 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |