Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [det] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all I got for that was a couple of tin medals , uh uh , aye dear Aye . |
| 2 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 3 | All I knew of this was the noise . |
| 4 | I spoke to that was Monday night , yeah , she 's been head of department , did I tell you that ? |
| 5 | All you earned for that was a belting . |
| 6 | The reason she gave for this was that she felt that experiencing repeated failure was bad for pupils . |
| 7 | But the stuff we got , the stuff we got before that was really good you know Dan , do you remember the stuff he got us before that ? |
| 8 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 9 | What they meant by that was that managers would do the kind of thing I 've just described like y'know transmit an ambiguous message orally rather than in a memo and visa versa . |
| 10 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 11 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 12 | That it happened at all was historic . |
| 13 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 14 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 15 | Bultmann too was happy to describe theology as ‘ faith seeking understanding ’ ; but what he meant by this was faith 's self -understanding , an understanding having to do with self-awareness and self-knowledge , subjective rather than objective . |
| 16 | What happened after that was no business of ours . |
| 17 | What happened after that was that divisional FA representative Arthur Clark took up the case and more sedentary media throughout Britain puffed to catch up with the Backtrack exclusive . |