Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] is " in BNC.

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1 All you had to do as an employee in all honesty , was get up in the morning , and you had , the decision you had to make is , how do I get to work for half past eight ?
2 Thus we must not , if we think that some other procedure than that adopted by the Secretary of State would be better or fairer , therefore conclude that the procedure he did adopt is necessarily unfair .
3 The impression persists , that the only life he had lived is , in fact , the literary , and , admitting its necessity to our fathers , especially to him who had such a job of clearing to do , I take it a fault .
4 However , one aspect I did like is the way you can select merge codes from menu choices rather than having to remember the correct syntax yourself .
5 Er the other thing I did mention is we 're not the only people who have erm problems with typing .
6 And the third thing I wanted to say is we 've got one or two handouts for you which are on the front table at the moment , about various broadcasting situations and press releases , the three coloured bits of paper .
7 The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil
8 And this is why I think the approach that Harrogate would perhaps be thinking of and we ourselves would be thinking of if this is the way we wanted to go is simply to go out and get a site and get planning permission on it .
9 I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot ,
10 The kind of balance we had to achieve is well summarised in the first chapter of the Kingman Report :
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