Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb base] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think this is board meeting and as a board I think were interested to get your points of view what is n't taken place that you 'd liked to take place and what you 'd like to see in the future well and that 's why the meetings been convened . |
| 2 | It started off all in Melior , with the text — the text I think was in Melior or Melior tells me that the text was originally in Melior with ordinary Melior headings , then when it appeared it was Nimrod with Melior bold . |
| 3 | The other books I remember were Keary and Keary 's Heroes of Asgard , Kipling 's Jungle Book and Puck of Pook 's Hill , and , particularly , A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia by Powell-Cotton . |
| 4 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 5 | Now in , in , in the book , and this is a diagram in the book that the person who did this paper yesterday in yesterday 's class put on the board , erm Freud does n't use the term super ego , that term I think was first used by Freud a year or two later in his book The Ego which I think is nineteen twenty three . |
| 6 | The casualties I think were something like fifty , fifty seven thousand dead and a very very large number of people wounded because of the particularly beastly kind of war with all kinds of weapons being used . |
| 7 | The casualties I think were something like fifty , fifty seven thousand dead and a very very large number of people wounded because of the particularly beastly kind of war with all kinds of weapons being used . |
| 8 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |
| 9 | On this occasion I personally moved from The Bun Shop to a pub I believe was called The Volunteer run by a well-known and aged bare-knuckle fighter from London 's East End called Joe Mullins . |
| 10 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 11 | The first home I remember was a basement flat at number 61 Granville Road , Kilburn . |
| 12 | But erm er the school days I think were were really the best days of our lives , but they we were the happiest days anyway because I enjoyed them and most kids enjoyed school in those days , not like it is today . |
| 13 | One of the best stories I recall was related by Norman Willis , the general secretary of the TUC , who once had the enlightening experience of watching a leaflet he had just delivered catch fire . |
| 14 | I could have turned a blind eye , but to grab it and to throw it to the hounds I think was absolutely abysmal . |
| 15 | One , both were dumpers I think were n't they ? |
| 16 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 17 | One of the things I was asked to write about this week I think was a radio , to , to write about er what I felt about radios , you know , er , erm , so anything could be thrown at you , and obviously I have my areas that I particularly interested in and I think sometimes I get a bit complacement and I 'm writing about a , I find particularly interested in and a bit lazy , so its quite good to be stretched . |
| 18 | because if I might say so disabled people were treated oddly in those days , they are not er , erm people I think were a bit er diffident about making contact with them and erm , a lot of people would n't erm , you know , give you a hand if you were |
| 19 | But the frame I think was a bit dodgy but it , we , we never had to have anything done at it . |
| 20 | Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked . |
| 21 | The last trouble I remember was when they played Birmingham City in the Cup last season . |
| 22 | A sign of respect I suppose was it not ? |
| 23 | Er of course as I say , they er this was the ma the maternity bill I think was , would , would 've been my mother 's day more than mine you see because I mean then yo the woman did n't get the maternity allowance and |
| 24 | The last decent performance I remember was vs Stuttgart at Leeds . |
| 25 | I used to work for a furniture and I always had the King 's Lynn I think was always easier |
| 26 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 27 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 28 | The next thing I remember was lying on the ground surrounded by players and officials . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The next thing I remember was being taken off to hospital . |
| 30 | The next thing I remember was getting up and falling down again because my feet were numb , ’ he said . |