Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 2 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |
| 3 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 4 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 5 | Another theory says that Jesus was only apparently human , another that he was adopted by God when he died , and still another that his body was human but his personality was divine . |
| 6 | Their joints were swollen with rheumatism , their eyes were dimmed with years , to a man they were short of breath and their hands trembled ; one old gentleman believed himself to be again taking part in the French wars , another that he was encamped before Sebastopol . |
| 7 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |
| 8 | How could he afford a place like this if he was playing dives like the Moebius Strip ? |
| 9 | What fraction would you get out of this if it was shared between two of us ? |
| 10 | No no I would n't do that I always do it like this if I was playing that hand three flu well you could go well you got a choice you can go take a chance on your last hand , not getting through or you can go two , three , five , six , seven two three four , ace finish them which is what I 'd probably do . |
| 11 | I mean he was just saying this and he was coming out with , you know , stupid words and it was really funny in the lesson , it was brilliant . |
| 12 | I have spoken to Ian Wright extensively about this and he was saying that Hendrix was one of his three musical idols . |
| 13 | I sought the help of the Public Bill on this and I was referred to erm Statutes i in force . |
| 14 | The greybeards made a quite unnecessary fuss about this and I was forced to employ my stout stick . |
| 15 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody 's Twisting Your Arm ’ , ‘ I 'm Not Always So Stupid ’ , ‘ Do n't Laugh ’ and ‘ Nothing Comes Easy ’ all expressed negative sentiments in their titles but Gedge did not realise this until it was pointed out . |
| 17 | Nothing much came of this until he was summoned to an interview at the Foreign Office with Kenneth Cohen , an MI6 officer he had known in Hamburg . |
| 18 | Well I had , there 's some soup in the freezer from when I put a tin , a tin of chicken soup and Di used the last of the turkey in it , and we had some and what was left I put in a dish |
| 19 | cos I mean , that 's what prompted all this cos I was getting some information from my |
| 20 | ‘ I had one injury after another and it was doing my head in . |
| 21 | Pinkie said nothing about this because he was dazed by gin , and was not paying , and Richard said nothing because , after a little thought , he concluded that the wine was good enough for Pinkie . |
| 22 | I know all this because she was engaged to my brother . |
| 23 | According to Luke , Jesus said this as he was crucified . |
| 24 | Secondly , they would need to be aware of the interactional domain ( e.g. their scope for movement , and the properties of objects around them ) , and be constantly updating this as it was affected by their actions . |
| 25 | I got some insight into this when I was telling him about my readings in Zen , and trying to explain the principles of yin and yan . |
| 26 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 27 | Teaching her to do this when she was moving , however , was a different matter altogether , yet another stage in the patient , painstaking training . |
| 28 | And I did n't want to have that 'cause I was looking for respect for me but also for my area of work and it was an absolutely deliberate act . |
| 29 | and used steel cans and that it was costing them less to use that than it was to use |
| 30 | France was an ally of the US and it was as such that she was to receive the greater part of the half a billion dollars in military assistance for the Far East which had been appropriated by Congress . |