Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun sg] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I , I enquired why it went to the District Council Environment and Planning Committee rather than the Coastal Planning Committee and the one reason I was told was speed , they could get the thing brought up there that much more quickly . |
| 2 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 3 | So on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing . |
| 4 | ‘ For me work is more fun than fun and the one thing I was never trained for was leisure . ’ |
| 5 | However , the one thing I was most emphatically told , was that learning to dive was going to be fun . |
| 6 | It would have been sensible to stay where I was until daylight , but that was the one thing I was determined not to do . |
| 7 | If you can find someone with a key to let you in , the interior of the chapel is said to be interestingly decorated , but the one time I was in Harambels I could find cows but no people . |
| 8 | And the one time I did n't was the one time I was wrong . |
| 9 | the twenty stone I was last month . |