Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , there had been two of them involved and it was unfair , but he would be feeling tricked … and trapped . |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | I ca n't afford it to , apart from that I mean and it was |
| 4 | But coming back , we moved again as I say and it was in the er winter . |
| 5 | The price was £12,500 if I recall and it was a wonderful moment when it went up . ’ |
| 6 | but I looked and it was actually |
| 7 | ‘ I did and it was splendid . ’ |
| 8 | I did and it was one of the reasons I lost my seat in the Dail . ’ |
| 9 | A chicken no a king prawn korma I had and it was lovely . |
| 10 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 11 | We set everything in monotype , and all these display headline faces copied out of old type books and then I left and it was almost like people were saying ‘ now what ’ , erm ‘ what are you going to do after that ? ’ and I said ‘ what do you mean ? ’ . |
| 12 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 13 | Sometimes he felt himself wince and it was strange because he could n't tell whether it was the needle or his memory . |
| 14 | ‘ Will you be going to Somerset too ? ’ she asked and it was with a sense of relief that she saw him shake his head . |
| 15 | But she remembers the Co-op having its first shop just , still in High street , but half way down , but then they had this prime position right on the corner , you know and it was a marvellous , a good Co-op I always thought . |
| 16 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 17 | If indeed she had and it was n't just Feargal 's own assumptions . |
| 18 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 19 | And they 'd all got er status symbols you see and it was quite a ceremonial thing that they used to have . |
| 20 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 21 | And then at tea time they had what their dinner was at tea time you see and it was always fish and . |
| 22 | this happened to be the hour you see and it was on |
| 23 | I said , ‘ Sure , ’ called the guys up , they flew down from Sydney and we played and it was just like we had n't stopped doing the pubs ; it felt real good . |
| 24 | But eventually she persuaded us she meant it and we went and it was an invaluable experience meeting not only our missionary partner but the people among whom she lives and and works and has done for many years . |
| 25 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 26 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 27 | well I know what 's on there , it wo n't be the same , its not , it wo n't be the same songs or items , will it ? , they do n't repeat their repertoire their , there not different items I mean if we did and it was a repeat you could always wipe it out , put something on top , could n't you ? |
| 28 | Everybody had something to say and it was amazing how people had such different memories of the same event . |
| 29 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 30 | People paid their debts and when they needed help , they asked and it was never refused ; it was the way that the small and widespread community had always lived , and as a system it was dignified and efficient . |