Example sentences of "[pers pn] was there [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , dottore , they knew I was there before I got out of the car , before they 'd even had a glimpse of me . ’ |
| 2 | I was there before it |
| 3 | I did not have an opportunity to see any meals being served whilst I was there so I can not be sure of either the quality or quantity . |
| 4 | It was the summer when I was there so they were then starting to go swimming in the school pool . |
| 5 | He took a seven-year lease on the place while I was there so he must still have it . ’ |
| 6 | So I was there until Sean was seventeen months , which put a strain on all of us , I think . |
| 7 | And I was there until I was about eighteen . |
| 8 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 9 | I was there because Karen had brought me . |
| 10 | ‘ When I 'm old and grey , ’ said Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson afterwards , ‘ and people talk about great individual goals , I 'll be privileged to say I was there when Eric Cantona scored this one . |
| 11 | Wilkinson added : ‘ When I am old and grey I will tell people that I was there when Eric Cantona scored that goal against Chelsea . ’ |
| 12 | I was there when you needed me . |
| 13 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 14 | The business was there and , and I was there when he went . |
| 15 | I was there when the bailiffs arrived . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ but I was there when something else happened . |
| 17 | ‘ I was there when it started . |
| 18 | ( Oh , by the way , I was there when she died . |
| 19 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 20 | ‘ I was there when it happened . |
| 21 | I was there when she came . ’ |
| 22 | Very few people knew that yet I was there when they opened poor Catherine 's dumpy body and took out her heart . |
| 23 | Cos I was there when it happened . |
| 24 | ‘ I was there when Milburn Henke , the first American GI to set foot in Northern Ireland , stepped off the ship , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 26 | I was there when you had your hair done . |
| 27 | Oh I do apologize profusely , profoundly whatever it is , no , no I was there when you bought it |
| 28 | I was there when it happened ! |
| 29 | I know as we I was there when she |
| 30 | I was there If I 'd have been there to July , that year that I moved there , I would have been there twenty five years , on that road . |