Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pron] was [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid ! |
| 2 | I know it was Princetown T V but |
| 3 | cooking the tea , I remember it was fish fingers and chips I was doing and er the dam lights all went out , you were only little and erm Lynsey er , she came round from next door because she started cooking her chips |
| 4 | I believe it was Leonardo da Vinci who , upon receiving a missive from an acolyte asking ‘ Who is thy master ? ’ , returned him a single item : a pencil . |
| 5 | I believe it was Leonardo da Vinci who , upon receiving a missive from an acolyte asking ‘ Who is thy master ? ’ , returned him a single item : a pencil . |
| 6 | But on that particular winter 's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use , and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox , a colleague from his lordship 's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall . |
| 7 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 8 | I did n't know the Ethiopians had an imperial family , I suppose it was Haile Selassie 's relatives is it ? |
| 9 | I think he was company commander . |
| 10 | I think I was Dario O'Grady . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure but I think it was Mrs Turner . |
| 12 | I mean it going back to the days I think it was Professor Jode , it depends what you mean by class . |
| 13 | I think it was Professor Thomas Torrance who replied to a question concerning his ‘ conversion ‘ with the reply : ‘ I have been converted three times . |
| 14 | I think it was René Descartes who first formulated what I have called ‘ the heat-pain argument ’ . |
| 15 | Oh er , The House on yes I think it was Carol Street was n't it ? |
| 16 | ‘ I think it was Victoria Wood who said that there 's no such thing as bad taste in humour because if it 's bad taste no one laughs . |
| 17 | I think it was William Trevor who said the novel was more difficult to get down , the story needed much more polishing . |
| 18 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |
| 19 | And so Mr. Green , I think it was Chris Green , had to he was chairing that meeting and had a double vote . |
| 20 | Then I rode it in a in an old Burberry and I do n't how I started it , I think it was kick start . |
| 21 | We heard a scream — I think it was Christine Daaé 's voice . |
| 22 | Oh I think it was Freddie Kruger . |
| 23 | ‘ Mrs McDougall — no , I think it was Archie McLaren — told me that your father looked after the garden there . ’ |
| 24 | I think it was Clade Corbett of the Sydney Sun , who did not reveal the source of his information . |
| 25 | And the , the , the laugh I had was er , the last time they were advertising for spoolers they , you had to have I think it was O levels or something , |
| 26 | erm I do n't know if you remember the Esther Rantzen programme , I think three months ago , where they uncovered all sorts of misdeeds at a school in I think it was Cuckham Grange or somewhere in Berkshire . |
| 27 | I believe in taking action on fact and not fantasy , but I think it was Lord Zuckerman who was the scientific advisor to the government , who said that government has never taken preventive measures that would prove to be unjustified , and if you always wait to the last moment before being convinced to do anything , that 's often a moment too late . |
| 28 | I think it was Kevin Clifford who first pushed another carp development , the flavouring of baits , for bream . |
| 29 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 30 | I think it was David Bellamy who once said : ‘ Never make a frog do that which you would n't do yourself . ’ |