Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented . |
| 2 | And th it was like there was this couple and they were like I du n no about sixty , sixty five the pair of them . |
| 3 | and it were like I do n't know what had happened but |
| 4 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 5 | And the thing is , by the time I by the time I chased her I was so I do n't know , do n't even know where the photo is now . |
| 6 | I mean he did n't really give He was only you know just like erm just used his authority just to say Yeah . |
| 7 | I do n't think he was , he was just I du n no |
| 8 | The last one that st was here you ken how long he stayed ? |
| 9 | I ca n't remember where it was now but it it was certainly you know probably one of the er new er very new universities you know the ex-polys |
| 10 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |