Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] i [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the Minister is more successful with his new portfolio than his predecessors were and I wish him all the best in the difficult task that lies ahead of him . |
| 2 | Rule off from where you were before I want you to get some information down about our solar system . |
| 3 | What happened was that I mean you made curtains er the rusty red was affected by light , so eventually you got a curtain where where the red spots had been there were holes . |
| 4 | My first impression of the JMU was that I hope they do n't visit us , ’ admitted Robert Dicketts , South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants president and partner of Sevenoaks-based Lee Dicketts & Co . |
| 5 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |
| 6 | It was that I think which was fundamentally transformed by my involvement with the gay movement . |
| 7 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 8 | Nobody must have been his bombardier , mine was and my navigator was and I see his would have been . |
| 9 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you what my present was and I think you 'll understand . |
| 11 | So that is a possi I was just wondering which one it was cos I say I know some of them are a bit you know |
| 12 | ‘ My main thought was if I offer him my car how will I get to work tomorrow , and also if I give him the car will I be able to collect the insurance ? |
| 13 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 14 | I should write to Barry Humphries and explain that the reason I chose him was because I find his style of dressing very amusing and loud , different from everything else . ’ |
| 15 | John Harlow directed a series of films for British National , but probably his biggest success was While I Live which featured the very popular music the Dream of . |
| 16 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 17 | Asked if the Princess had changed since their last meeting at the mission in September 1991 , Mother Teresa said : ‘ She was as I know her . ’ |
| 18 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 19 | Er last time I went to the doctor was when I hurt my back . |