Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would want someone that was on my wavelength , roughly my age , preferably a supporter , and I would n't sign anything until I had at least a serious gentleman 's agreement that nothing could be issued without the artist 's agreement . |
| 2 | He was armed with an archaeological book he had dug out of that bulging briefcase of his and was on his hands and knees sifting through a pile of discarded bones . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll not be wanting to live with a man what 's too proud to take a helping hand from someone as was like our own son , and that 's a fact . ’ |
| 4 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 5 | And he told them that was in the flat that you know about and that there was suspicion that other occupants of the flat were in danger . |
| 6 | Having read this I was drawn to the words of the Apostle Paul when he wrote ‘ But when the fulness of time was come , God sent forth his Son , made of a woman , made under the law , to redeem them that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons . ’ |
| 7 | When he broke his neck and doctors said he might not race again , he discharged himself and was on the circuit again within seven weeks . |
| 8 | My sister took a bit of stick at first , too , and although she 's two years younger than me and was in a different class , we stuck together at break times and tried to avoid the sneering eyes . |
| 9 | Mrs Dooley , the lady who ‘ did ’ for them and was at home when Alexander arrived back from school , hovered in the background beside the hat stand . |
| 10 | She opened them and was in the light . |
| 11 | Was she there , was it she that was with him ? |
| 12 | member of Master Humphrey 's circle , who resides with him and acts as his secretary and steward : ‘ something of a musician , something of an author , something of an actor , something of a painter , very much of a carpenter , and an extraordinary gardener , having had all his life a wonderful aptitude for learning everything that was of no use to him . |
| 13 | there was about twenty cards and you had to name everything that was on it , order everything , like you usually go , erm that 's it or something and erm you have to learn it in the MAs and MEs and things and all that and then she showed you and you had to take everything on that |
| 14 | He would fight for anything whatever , but he would sell everything that was worth fighting for . ’ |
| 15 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 16 | Something that was of interest was him mentioning a discussion with his wife , where he said he tells her he intends to retire at 55 . |
| 17 | The logic — that the Treasury could not be expected to control something that was for local councils ' electorates to decide finally sank in , not least because the Treasury had so regularly failed to keep them to their limits . |
| 18 | The only worrying aspect of the match was the overwhelming superiority which Queensland enjoyed at the line-out , something that was to be a recurring problem in the later stages of the tour in the big matches . |
| 19 | As he spoke something untoward had begun to occur , something that was at one and the same time obscene and yet oddly natural . |
| 20 | It did not come as a startling revelation — no blinding flash of illumination , only a possibility that he had not previously considered , something that was worth checking . |
| 21 | Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach . |
| 22 | He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing . |
| 23 | " That one that was on the telly … " |
| 24 | That was the one that was on television with the water right the way |
| 25 | well this one that was on last night it was like a |
| 26 | The one that was on Jonathan Ross a few weeks ago . |
| 27 | Well my fucking , my deep fat fryer 's sitting out we got an electric one we used to have the one that was on the cooker |
| 28 | that one that was on the cooker . |
| 29 | Erm hang on , I 've thought of another one that was on the other night , Do the Footsie . |
| 30 | Oh is she the one that was with the er magician ? |