Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [was/were] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail ! |
| 2 | But in the first instance , as I say we , I was one of six children and er I do n't think there was one working while they was , I mean they was all born before there was anybody old enough to work , you find , that 's And our Albert , me dad had Albert up and he er never give me mother any wages for Albert . |
| 3 | Well it was a question in those days whether you got a bay window or a flat window I mean erm the houses down Street are better quality I suppose really er all property around there is rented , I mean no one bought the houses at all not even up , I mean they were all rented houses . |
| 4 | well that was , you know I mean they were all waiting they had all got their arm bands on and it was do we take them in or not ? |
| 5 | He , he er yes , he I mean they were all quite helpful . |
| 6 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 9 | I mean it was all white . |
| 10 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 11 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 12 | to fetch all badness , I mean it were all five of those bottle or four up in London |
| 13 | Erm I suppose , I mean it would depend on where you were going back to , to where you which , which region then because I mean there was such a difference in in what the villages were going to erm accept . |
| 14 | I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes |
| 15 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 16 | I mean I said to her today I mean there was this costume there and I said here get that one there I said french maid outfit , nurse 's outfit . |
| 17 | because for eighteen months I mean there was this sledgehammer and all you could hear was boom , boom |
| 18 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 19 | I mean there were several people but m the surprising was the person in charge of of the work girls you see . |
| 20 | I mean there were several stages before they got to present day man , but |
| 21 | And his wife , who is in a wheelchair , commented , ‘ I realised it was all rubbish — he 's a wonderful man . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah I 'm going to getting the stamps off these en envelopes cos I have to put all these in a hurry in the end , also got loads of time , then I realised it was half past ten , no wonder I did n't get anything at home forgotten where we keep them |
| 23 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off ’ . |
| 24 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off . |
| 25 | After I got there was this lorry chasing me , and I was always running |
| 26 | I expect they were all much the same . |
| 27 | For everyday guitar sounds like chorus , reverb and delay I found there was little to choose between the ME-6 and ME-10 , until it came to modifying them . |
| 28 | I say they were all born in the US but they say they were born in Ireland , Canada or other places . |
| 29 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 30 | And I say there was some sort of a an embarrassment I can only call it |