Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you got you got the man from the Terminator , Arnold Schwarzenegger a big heavy monster build who was in Total Recall , Raw Deal , what else ? |
| 2 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 3 | A real heavy duty place it was in those days |
| 4 | ‘ Looking at it now , I realise it was from this point that Diana began putting herself behind Relate and Aids charities . |
| 5 | You know who was on that story ? |
| 6 | I know we were at one point . |
| 7 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 8 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 9 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 10 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 11 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 12 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 13 | Well my Lord the issue is that the defendants deny they were under any duty to offer any advice about financial . |
| 14 | I bet she was at that price . |
| 15 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |
| 16 | For past all doubt he was on that path , he did find the poor soul dead , he did run to the castle , like an honest man , and tell the sheriff what he had found . |
| 17 | I presume you were at this morning 's ? ’ |
| 18 | I think we were in that situation six months ago , I do n't think we owe owe those three candidates anything now |
| 19 | He seemed to me and many others , I think we were in common agreement , most of the people that I was associated with , that Ni Bevan was the only man that really cared you know , he really cared . |
| 20 | My mother , she decided to give up sugar , I think it was about one year . |
| 21 | I think it was about last week 's epi , but they seem to e imply that it was last week 's episode that would |
| 22 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 23 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 24 | I think it was on this morning yeah but it 's erm |
| 25 | … or losing 7–1/7–2 to sheff weds in a mel sterland testimonial ( I think it was for fat mel ) |
| 26 | I wish I was in those bars tonight . ’ |
| 27 | I wish I was in sweet Dunloe |
| 28 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 29 | there is a consistent air of frustration in the writings of some of the social scientist contributors … it is almost as though they wish they were in closer touch with the operational side of the service . |
| 30 | Even when you wish he was on another planet . |