Example sentences of "things [conj] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 2 | When psychologists have told us things that were based on intuition rather than science many of those things have been important . |
| 3 | There were the other things that were written at the time — there are at least 15 cues . ’ |
| 4 | According to my understanding of , of Labour history , it was er during the war years , at one of the Labour Party conferences , that a NUPE resolution supported by COHSE , actually er brought about some of the , the , the many things that were written within the Beveridge report , and committed the Labour Party to the foundation of the National Health Service that would be free at the points of need for every member of the community . |
| 5 | Pascoe thought of the things she did , hour in , hour out — the things that were done to her . |
| 6 | Oh , I know that he would never have touched anything in the least underhand , but he is a director of the company , and he might be held responsible for things that were done without his knowledge . |
| 7 | Let those things that were done in the dark of night be revealed for your justice and that of the king in the full light of day . ’ |
| 8 | She became , for a short while , my personal manager — we did a radio promotion tour around England on the ‘ Andy Warhol ’ single — but I often had the feeling that they were things that were given to Angie to keep her out of David 's way , to occupy her so that he could sort himself out . |
| 9 | And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread . |
| 10 | Er John Grantham , C P R E , erm just coming back to the to the general questions you you asked earlier about about erm consistency with guidance and and P P G three in particular , erm in in the written evidence we we 've addressed that , and I do n't wish to go over that ground short of saying that that I feel the contribution from er Mr Jewitt , which was Hambledon 's particularly helpful in that regard in in I think explaining erm how government guidance is different now to when to how it was er at the earlier deliberations of the Greater York authorities , and I feel that that 's very important consideration erm , I 'd I 'd like to restrict my my comments just to two points , and they they both really refer to things that were introduced by the representative from from Barton Willmore . |
| 11 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 12 | The same things that were promised for the gas , electricity and water , but in rel reality the only section to gain are the fat cats at the top who have recently been given it 's obscene pay increases . |
| 13 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 14 | Elisabeth was no longer interested in these things but was captivated by the Colonel 's enthusiasm for his subjects . |