Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , regarding the actions of coalition forces , " we want to believe it was not a crusade , it was not colonialism … subsequent actions will prove all this to us " . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyway , tell Sunil it was n't my fault . ’ |
| 3 | aged quite rapidly , we were lucky with ours cos at the time I could n't , you know thought she was about twelve , |
| 4 | Better to say nothing , and try to pretend she was just tired . |
| 5 | Aye Win said he was there and er sometimes he fell asleep and I 'd be oh Win ! |
| 6 | She added after a moment : ‘ I do know he was n't liked ; even as a boy he had no friends . ’ |
| 7 | I thought it might be — that 's why I went back to Hong Kong , so I would n't be tempted to see you and start believing it was n't . |
| 8 | Ten years is a long time in the world of books , but I do remember there was not nearly such a fuss over the original 1983 list : a rather uncomfortable party in some medical establishment , a few diary paragraphs and that was it . |
| 9 | I do believe it was n't just inability to cope with a terrible handicap . |
| 10 | Jack Watson 's figures 0–52 from 16 overs do suggest it was n't one of his better days , however . |
| 11 | I do hope there was n't a disagreement . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do hope it was n't that arty chap . |
| 13 | ‘ I do wish it was n't our last day . ’ |
| 14 | As the second series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was about to begin , he drove to Birmingham to appear as a guest celebrity in the TV show What 's My Line . |
| 15 | ‘ They do say he was sexually assaulted , but the family 's trying to keep it hushed up . ’ |
| 16 | I came in to this building last year I 've got people sitting here who 've realised it was n't a happy place to be I found it quite difficult . |
| 17 | The old system to which the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) wish to return us was far more unsatisfactory , as she well knows . |
| 18 | We have to know who was here before us to figure out ourselves better . |
| 19 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 20 | Defence cuts and a changing world order have turned what was once a bustling workshop into an empty and eerie expanse of space . |
| 21 | You have to remember I was only 19 when I first came here and people were expecting me to be totally in control . |
| 22 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 23 | ‘ I just have to hope it was n't me . |
| 24 | ( I have to say I was n't in the room with him thought I was working at the Daily Mail at the time . ) |
| 25 | I have to say I was extremely moved . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Actually , ’ Doone said calmly , ‘ he is known to be able to drive his father 's jeep on the Downs expertly , and my men have discovered he was out of school last Wednesday afternoon on a field trip to Windsor Safari Park . |
| 27 | Obviously , that was in his interests , but I have to admit it was also in mine . |
| 28 | I have to admit I was also physically attracted to you . |