Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not as young as I was nor as tough , either . |
| 2 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 3 | ‘ You did n't know I was after it as well , did you ? ’ |
| 4 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 5 | Sometimes , if they did n't know the one I was after , they sent me off in search of one or two they had of their own . |
| 6 | I pranced about and lay on the ground and turned the lens through 45 degrees and stepped in pore-scouringly close , but what I was really doing , what I was after , was a good shot of Stuart 's double chin . |
| 7 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 8 | He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography : ‘ I depict not what I was but what I see when I look back ’ , he told Eleanor Farjeon . |
| 9 | Some of them stared at me and a woman asked the Feldwebel who I was but there was no sign of hostility . |
| 10 | In my case , before becoming a Snavely winner , I was but crabgrass in the Garden of Physics . |
| 11 | ‘ I was but teasing — I meant no harm . |
| 12 | Our Chairman was a master printer , older than I was but an extremely good-looking man , so that my excitement had a sexual side as well as a political one . |
| 13 | ‘ When That I Was But a Little Tiny Boy ’ . |
| 14 | I was but an afterthought , and I doubt if they 're bidding high enough for me . ’ |
| 15 | However citified and sooty my surroundings , I was but a shilling bus-ride from the crags and heather of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 16 | Now I know said I was but I give the impression from that if you shake hands with them you should count your fingers afterwards |
| 17 | or not , cos she 'll think I 'm lying , I was but you know , I was n't I was telling the truth |
| 18 | I know I told you that I was but I was feeling sorry for someone , not Emma or anyone like that . |
| 19 | I went straight out and broke a window , I was that impressed … ’ |
| 20 | By my first weekend at the Centre I was that very dangerous creature , one worse than a missionary , a convert . |
| 21 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 22 | I am sure that he was as pleased as I was that the Parliamentary Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon ( Mr. Curry ) , spent some time last week promoting British lamb in the middle of France . |
| 23 | Thank you for secondly I was that the decision now is left to the the District Council er have you not discuss some parts of elements er could be addressed in the short term . |
| 24 | Just possible that you standard because he obviously seemed to think that I was that I had some great possible qualities but |
| 25 | I 'll now tol t no I know I told you that I was that I was feeling |
| 26 | I was that knacked not her , bright as a button , she still did n't sleep that bloody night , she 's a swine , Linda was n't very old when Pam was born was she ? |
| 27 | I was that shocked I could n't he myself ! |
| 28 | I was that because |
| 29 | There is no doubt in my mind that I can be the player I was before I got injured . |
| 30 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |