Example sentences of "[noun] was [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They started off with custard , and had to find an apple in the custard was it ? |
| 2 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 3 | The deal was we made our own beds and fed on board . |
| 4 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 5 | Now when the accident was all complete and over and the the tachograph of this vehicle was examined , the speed was I think it was eighty two or eighty three miles an hour Stan was n't it ? |
| 6 | What kind of episode was it ( see page 98 ) ? 2 . |
| 7 | And the result was we were often working till half past three without any lunch at all . |
| 8 | The result was we arrived in Hong Kong a day late , and quite late in the evening , and our journey to China proper was due to start early the next morning . |
| 9 | ‘ Thirteen League goals was it ? |
| 10 | Hill was it ? |
| 11 | Erm then we had one at Sk Hulton in July and we won that er , not quite as much of a whitewash was it ? |
| 12 | His reply was he 'd do the same — so I knew from that moment onwards he was the man for me . ’ |
| 13 | In her mind was she comforting her cat-creature as the virus bombs began to rain down ? |
| 14 | He suggested she develop an interest of her own , generously allowing her space for something else , when all her heart and mind was his forever and ever , amen . |
| 15 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 16 | Say something to her when she comes back , say erm Richard was you supposed to send erm did Laura come up to you and sa sa say that you , did she ask you out something like that ? |
| 17 | Oh it was Pakistan was it ? |
| 18 | Well maybe , yeah , but maybe Steven is er is a half brother through a third marriage erm at a later stage to when they his mum er they 're er Chris ' mum may have remarried , who Andy calls mum , erm remarried when Andy was you know , fifteen and Chris was twenty five and then they , and Steve was o old as well , Steve was quite however o however how old Steve is , he |
| 19 | West Indies had had their triumphs before , of course , but now things were different ; they were no longer inferior to whites , they were unified , they were strong and the future was theirs . |
| 20 | Of course , the Rolls-Royce limousine was his , and he rapped sharply on the window to waken the sleeping chauffeur . |
| 21 | Like many other constructors in FI , Chapman thought drivers were good , bad or indifferent tools to do a job : if they did the job well , so much the better , and if they did n't , the fault was theirs . |
| 22 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 23 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 24 | Whose fault was it ? |
| 25 | Well it was n't your fault was it ? |
| 26 | Whose fault was it ? |
| 27 | They had not seen nearly enough of each other during this holiday — and the fault was his . |
| 28 | Legs was it or something ? |
| 29 | David was it ? |
| 30 | that telly was mine but I 've got a lovely picture when I used to have it in the kitchen . |