Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me an me sister , we thought we were then he says come inside and sing it for our , somebody , you know . |
| 2 | He had n't wondered where her clothes were when he 'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term . |
| 3 | Richard Baker explains how crude the technical facilities were when he began reading the news in the 1950's . |
| 4 | Carl said he , he looked er well er , his face did , it were very he 's got a very poxy skin . |
| 5 | ‘ Ruination , ’ was all he had to say . |
| 6 | There was still a job to do , and although it might not seem much in comparison to the past , it was all he had left . |
| 7 | It was all he had left to bind him to reality . |
| 8 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 9 | I — ’ was all he managed to get out . |
| 10 | £20 was all he 'd got for one beast . |
| 11 | ‘ He wanted to marry me — he told me I was all he needed to make his life perfect . |
| 12 | She was well and with child ; that was all he needed to know . |
| 13 | If the sentence ‘ God exists ’ entails no more than that certain types of phenomena occur in certain sequences , then to assert the existence of a god will be simply equivalent to asserting that there is the requisite regularity in nature ; and no religious man would admit that this was all he intended to assert in asserting the existence of a god . |
| 14 | Once the hunting season was over he had gone straight off to Ireland to fish , and then , on the outbreak of war , had promptly rejoined his regiment , and as their colonel-in-chief had made several sorties to France during the next three years . |
| 15 | Once he had begun he did n't feel nervous , he spoke slowly and levelly , and once his part was over he began to enjoy the rest of the proceedings . |
| 16 | It was the perfect mental massage , and when it was over he rose feeling slightly numb , but tingling and refreshed . |
| 17 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 18 | The next place he tried , the loneliest , was the rear turret , and that was once he had fathomed out how to work the heating system . |
| 19 | When the worst of the storm was past he had looked out and seen with astonishment a flame blossom from the top of the Tower . |
| 20 | Well everyone has , everyone is entitled to vote and he also thinks that if the time is right when unmarried women were property and he thought it would n't be long before married women to hold property too , so he was also he wanted to reform the Married Women 's Property Act . |
| 21 | Before that night was out he had surrendered himself to Christ . |
| 22 | When the thermometer was out he wanted to know his temperature . |
| 23 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 24 | Jean-Claude told me that is was here he had wished Montaine to be laid , not in the familiar old churchyard within a stone 's throw of the house . |
| 25 | It was here he started making frames for re-building the Manx Norton motorbike . |
| 26 | Off balance , she had to release her grip in order to save herself , and before she knew what he was about he had tossed the pitchfork into the next stall , and kicked her feet out from under her . |
| 27 | ‘ Be quiet ! ’ he ordered , and before she knew what he was about he had snatched at her white cap and pulled it off . |
| 28 | That was how he became rehabilitated . |
| 29 | The only thing I could n't discover was how he managed to get you out of Gloucester and marry you after all . |
| 30 | This was how he had felt , yesterday , the days before yesterday , and intermittently in all the thousands of days since childhood . |