Example sentences of "[prep] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back . |
| 32 | As of were all a |
| 33 | And they come out and they sort of were looking around and there was a load of cars here . |
| 34 | Er Brothers of were manufacturers of sheep dips and various disinfectants . |
| 35 | Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production . |
| 36 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 37 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 38 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 39 | The one thing we never thought of was to check the wheels . |
| 40 | The Attorney-General also had to establish that the information complained of was the subject matter of the pending action against the Guardian and the Observer . |
| 41 | ‘ Better files than people , I told him , but that did not interest him : all he could think of was the files . ’ |
| 42 | What I was in search of was my son . |
| 43 | When Philip woke , the first thing he thought of was the pheasants . |
| 44 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 45 | Suddenly , all he was aware of was one single , frozen thought : |
| 46 | All he could think of was the small , dark , murderous hole . |
| 47 | All I could think of was to give a sickly smile and to murmur , ‘ I think you are probably right . ’ |
| 48 | All he could think of was : ‘ Keep him in a good mood ! |
| 49 | Yet everything he talked of was clear and at the tip of his tongue . |
| 50 | The thriftiness she often boasted of was also in evidence — despite their opulent appearance the costumes cost just £3,000 . |
| 51 | He apologised to readers and to Philips Dictation Systems : ‘ Could of was simply a typesetting error that slipped passed the keenest eyes ’ , he wrote . |
| 52 | There were no doors in the walls , but she could tell from the noise that the building she thought she had come out of was a pub . |
| 53 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 54 | Well , the player I was most afraid of was Jack Nicklaus . |
| 55 | No I thought to myself you do not deserve this death and the you I was thinking of was not the fish itself but all those people standing on the bank . |
| 56 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 57 | The only thing he could think of was he was a good swimmer — and a fat lot of good that was to him . |
| 58 | All I was conscious of was that everything had miscarried , and in my isolation , I was powerless to do anything . |
| 59 | The only place I could think of was Stonehenge which must have been spanking new then and as up to date as a Hilton or an out-of-town Sainsburys . |
| 60 | From the above observations one can deduce that either the tensile strength is zero due to pre-fracturing , or that the tectonic component of was underestimated . |