Example sentences of "was [pron] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the answer was nothing unless you actually wish to attack China and er defeat China through military means and the task of doing that of course was enormously out of proportion to the original er cause of the war . |
| 2 | And the answer was nothing unless you actually wish to attack China and er defeat China through military means and the task of doing that of course was enormously out of proportion to the original er cause of the war . |
| 3 | And there was nothing till you got to the Grange , absolutely nothing . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , I knew it was nothing when he came in . ’ |
| 5 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 6 | No it was n't it was me cos I was saying that if yo , if your pen did n't work . |
| 7 | Well , that was me as I toured Central Park , Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building . |
| 8 | ‘ That was me when I was twenty-five , ’ said Chaman . |
| 9 | ‘ Where was I when you asked me if I wanted to marry a devious man like you ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Able was I ere I saw Michael ; where can you land a Palin ? |
| 11 | At this time , for a short while , he was purged , he was himself as his best self should be , he was all that his great promise had held out — untainted , unbrutalised — like the Floating Island on Derwent Water , submerged for years on end , only to rise up intact now and then . |
| 12 | I wondered if it was you when we first got news of the Abbey — no insult just that some people get picked for some jobs . |
| 13 | I was gon na say er somebody told me that he 'd left and I thought it was you cos nobody would . |
| 14 | Well er if I was you if you 're , if you 're missing out on stuff from , from Guy try and see Guy , if you 're missing out on stuff from Dave try and see Dave |
| 15 | I would tell Miss if I was you because I do not like to see |
| 16 | ‘ Very well , ’ sighed Isabel , obeying only because she knew they had to find shelter , and there was none where they stood . |
| 17 | I mean mum was n't that good was she because she I mean |
| 18 | How old was she when she died , or how long had you had her ? |
| 19 | If you do n't know her age , how long had you had her and what size was she when you got her ? |
| 20 | To think that your name was She until you were about four . |
| 21 | that of body of whatever it was who where there have left . |
| 22 | Well not in the thirties of course but after the War there was one because I er , ah well this , no , this was much later , much much much , because I married my second husband and erm I had two children fairly quick . |
| 23 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 24 | The sketch was one where he played a man contemplating how different life might have been had there not been a world war . |
| 25 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |
| 26 | I suspect I suspect the local office probably wo n't because it was they when I rang them here in Newark and I said , Look I 'm about to go self-employed , |
| 27 | ‘ So , ’ Benjamin continued , ‘ where was everybody when we were visiting Coldstream ? ’ |
| 28 | she was her cos we always remembered her . |
| 29 | He was sure it was her because he had smelt the peppermints . |
| 30 | Artemis knew it was him before she saw him , because even before he was in the room everyone stood up , and Nanny as always straightened Artemis 's dress , tugging at the back . |