Example sentences of "was [pron] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well there was nothing left which would n't |
| 2 | " It was me brought you together , " he said as they thanked him . |
| 3 | It was me put you all on to the Om prayer . |
| 4 | She was threatened , and the primitive male instinct to protect what was his brought his entire body to battle-readiness within seconds . |
| 5 | And , the worse thing for me was I lost my self confidence , I had no confidence whatsoever. , . |
| 6 | ‘ The reason I put you up was I heard you were good and … straight . ’ |
| 7 | I told my dad that was I chucked his in the bin and it had sort of stains on it and I told him that was |
| 8 | [ There were ] several reasons for it : one of them was I thought they were too much alike . |
| 9 | The reason I joined was I thought they were going to get more money for me , not take it away . ’ |
| 10 | But when I went up to er , was called as a witness I , this was I amazed me , the Jury Judge said I wish to affirm , he wanted to know why . |
| 11 | We had rather a lot to drink , and before I knew where I was I found myself being hustled into a broom closet by three men . |
| 12 | What I did was I got I went down to the print room and I got a piece of A one paper and I mean if you want to use Chris |
| 13 | Thing was I knew he 'd forgotten something . |
| 14 | was I gave my mum a lift because I , and d' ya know by the time he gets better |
| 15 | ‘ It was ye contaminated it . ’ |
| 16 | The , the interviewer the other day said that she was somebody stopped her in Sandy Row , at the bottom of Sandy Row , |
| 17 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 18 | It was you liked it did n't you , you liked it here when you first came . |
| 19 | The answer , passed onto folklore , was you dragged him back into your garden before you called the police . |
| 20 | It was you said we had to face things . |
| 21 | Cos it was you said there were two or three different kinds of |
| 22 | It 's alright , it was you tapped your microphone . |
| 23 | Well she was she served me the other day , Dawn |
| 24 | The upshot was she got herself a room in a house full of artists round the corner . |
| 25 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |
| 26 | The deal was we made our own beds and fed on board . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever he was we settled his hash , ’ McQuaid gloated . |
| 28 | You know the man in charge of them was they called him , always used to go and fetch him to go if they needed er or somebody lost their passes and . |
| 29 | A lot of blokes say the reason they got into music in the first place was they thought it would be a great way of pulling women . |
| 30 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |