Example sentences of "was [pron] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm there was I am sorry to be boring but there are all these action points from the previous meeting Oh yes I forgot the action points do you feel we have covered them . |
| 2 | Well actually how I got into it was I was idle at the time and er my two chums were French polishers and as I 've said and they said , Er now would you like to come in and try it ? |
| 3 | But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment ! |
| 4 | But the thing was nobody was impressed with him he was too much of er he was too good a speaker you know . |
| 5 | Was she being stupid on purpose , or did she really mean it , Mungo wondered ? |
| 6 | Well I remember this wedding it was my auntie and she was she was married at Stronsay to a territorial . |
| 7 | Paula said the reason she would not go back was she was frightened of him because he used to beat her . |
| 8 | Paula said the reason she would not go back Turn to Page 10 From Page 1 was she was frightened of him because he used to beat her . |
| 9 | It was there 's all for the taking . |
| 10 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |
| 11 | Well everyone 'll do it , everyone did go home eventually and their wages , cos there was there was two of us , I told you did n't I , there was two of us that worked it out . |
| 12 | Er no I think it wa I think it was our , our mistake er , there was there were sixteen of us there and seven of us had sort of clubbed together looked at the menu and it 's it 's fifteen ninety five , to , the rich main course banquet |
| 13 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 14 | He says the most important thing Thames Water said tonight was they 're flexible about the size of th reservoir and are aiming to have the smallest practicable size . |
| 15 | But the trouble was they were both at the same time after school where she was meant to be decorating the hall for the disco after school that night . |
| 16 | When I asked Francis who the girl at the gate was he was easy about it . |
| 17 | We had no money in our pockets , but er we 're talking about er er er economics , and Marxian economics at that , er and funnily enough the chap the chap who did that , er Bert , he was unemployed , he was he was one of the fellows from Derbyshire who was victimized in Derbyshire . |
| 18 | Would she have allowed him the use of it in any outside circumstance , anywhere that open sexual contact would be anything other than common and unremarkable , and was he being honest in trying to tap some dry spring of old feelings to further his own ends now ? |
| 19 | Was he being charitable for once , or was it another attempt to get her out of Peter 's life ? |
| 20 | The good thing about the science was it was all in school , practical |
| 21 | I bought it in a jar and it was it was funny at the poppy actually and they said |
| 22 | Erm right so it was it was supposed to be a disgrace to lose your standard in your legion in the Roman army . |
| 23 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 24 | We always used to play the like you never see what is going on and never know the problems involved in being , that , that was what was good about the , the R A interview . |
| 25 | ‘ I could imagine the Senseless Things , but I ca n't imagine Marc Bolan being resurrected from an enormous star in the sky and having Pan 's People dancing around him , and that was what was good for me ! |
| 26 | That was what was Christmassy about that record . |
| 27 | Then I hesitate to say that there 's probably a more complex issue now even than the Fire Station , erm , the figures which are given incidentally are the original estimate there , because that was what was available to us at the time . |
| 28 | And nothing wrong with it at all , if that was what was right for you , but it was n't right for Maria , and it sure as eggs was n't right for Kath ! |
| 29 | What was what was wrong with your little bit of WordPerfect ? |
| 30 | And that was what was wrong with the world . |