Example sentences of "and [pron] was [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said to me it 's a bit late to go knocking on windows is n't it , and I was like I did n't say anything I just thought well |
| 2 | Candy was right , she realised bleakly — part of her did want to get back where she belonged , and there was nowhere she felt more at home than on a stage . |
| 3 | And he said this and he was n't I mean particularly , he said oh she 's just , you know she , she 's like sailed through Haileybury , she gets out of everything , she , he , he 's really keen on the sports side of things here so I do n't know why he got so het up about it but he said it really er pissed him off the way she erm |
| 4 | In my American soap thing and it was anyway I think it 's called midnight . |
| 5 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 6 | The Kolowrat family gave money for the church as one of their family belonged to the Jesuit Order and it was here they chose to be buried . |
| 7 | Chapter 3 provides information on a variety of religious faiths , and it was here I found the text least satisfactory . |
| 8 | He went to school in Attleborough and it was here he developed what he considered a ‘ natural advantage ’ in sport . |
| 9 | and it was where they pinned the er , the , get the lips , the circle . |
| 10 | Unless we lateral think and it was n't him put us here . ’ |
| 11 | He did n't know lions and it was n't him had tae go inside the cage . |
| 12 | And it was n't you see , a matter of being intimately connected with other people 's dirty clothes — that 's something I was thankful for , I must admit . |
| 13 | So I had it , and honestly I did enjoy it , and it was n't tough and it was n't you did n't have to chew it ! |
| 14 | It was her own cottage and it was all she had to show for 20 years of marriage so , she reasoned , she might as well make it look as good as possible . |
| 15 | At this point he decided to turn back , for even now it would be eleven before he was home and it was seldom he stayed out as late as that . |
| 16 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 17 | And it was then she had decided that war work or not , her daughter 's excursions with convalescent wounded must stop at once . |
| 18 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 19 | He was a very large guy , and it was then she clicked that she was conversing with Ronnie Kray of the infamous Kray twins . |
| 20 | ‘ Tell Mr. McCloy it 's no dice , ’ I heard him say and it was then I said had he got a match ? |
| 21 | I once had to step out of the water with 5½ stone of weights on me , and it was then I resolved to diet . |
| 22 | His navigational skills were required at Rió Grande and it was then he painted his Learjet with the name Ángel de Muerte , on both sides , so that on the radio beamed to the English they could say the Ángel of Death was coming with his French missiles loaded to kill . ’ |
| 23 | He could hardly believe his eyes and it was then he knew that he was unable to rely on his sensory feelings ( the kinaesthetic sense ) . |
| 24 | He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important . |
| 25 | You took the ferry at Dalmeny and then used the horses from the royal stables at Aberdour to journey to Kinghorn , and it was then you found the King 's body lying on the beach ? ’ |
| 26 | They told me it was just like following recipes , and it was so I did . |