Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] [was/were] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 2 | All were corked and sealed , and he was too circumspect to break the seals till he saw better where he was and what was to do . |
| 3 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 4 | And it , it becomes you 'd never actually get the thing printed and you 'd never actually get the thing distributed because you , you , you 're wondering what to put in , what not to put in as it were and sticking to the specifics er at least it 's getting it 's getting something out and I do n't , personally I do n't see any , any real problem in personalizing it further and as much to indicate , right , without obvious prejudice to the new union erm to indicate er in , in some general or specific sense , if that does n't sound like sort of like contradictory , on on the , the , the betterment of , of representation for members within , within Northumberland come unison . |
| 5 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 6 | These quotations — and many more letters to Edward — amplify , in their chatty , less intense manner , the picture of early courtship recalled by Helen in 1924–6 in As It Was and World Without End . |
| 7 | She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight . |
| 8 | I 've kept it just as it was and it 's surprising how many people come to see it . |
| 9 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 10 | But er as I say there were people really worse off than we were but we were n't all that well off and my mother as I say took in washing and did black leading and all that sort of thing for very small remuneration . |
| 11 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 12 | And I 'd be aggressive and loud , but not aggressive towards him , but be loud and strolling up and down , making out I was a damn sight worse off than I was and all that . |
| 13 | and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on . |
| 14 | I 've seen her several times and before you rang me at the theatre , she had promised to find out where you were and tell me . ’ |
| 15 | They had not , they said , but they had a lot of reliable relatives and could easily find out where he was and deliver any message I wanted to send him , if he was there . |
| 16 | ‘ Put everything back where it was and start the engine , ’ she screamed . |
| 17 | Come back where you were or you 'll have to get in . |
| 18 | He was very much more out than I was and he knew where the gay scene was , not only in Edinburgh but also in London . |
| 19 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 20 | No that helped him actually , trying to find out whether he was or not . |
| 21 | Malleson had said that half the people were as ready to drop out as he was and he had already dropped out . |
| 22 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 23 | ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’ |
| 24 | And if this second branch failed , there was yet another Mortimer , Edmund 's sister Elizabeth ; and like Philippa , even if she was but a woman , she had given birth to a son , the youngest Henry Percy , Hotspur 's heir . |
| 25 | And when they opened the Ark they should have discovered Moses in it but they did n't because it was and there we are . |
| 26 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 27 | It was , in fact , the clearing centre at Le Boulou , but nobody had any idea then where we were or where we were going . |
| 28 | Left alone , we began to speculate about where we were and why , and where we would ultimately be taken . |
| 29 | Meanwhile they carried on as they were and that went very well . |