Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was him putting them through was n't it ? |
| 2 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 3 | All she forgot to tell you about was the killing of forty-seven Jews . ’ |
| 4 | Another thing I was gon na ask you about was erm I 'd heard somebody mention ploughing competitions with horses . |
| 5 | we , you see , and she of was often pottering in her garden |
| 6 | The lurching nausea his earlier stories taunted you into was replaced with the deep , sick shock of grief : the loss of a child . |
| 7 | The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) . |
| 8 | The room they took me into was walled with white tiles and bright with fluorescent lighting . |
| 9 | It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue . |
| 10 | Corbett was worried as the silver Burnell had furnished him with was nearly gone . |
| 11 | That she 'd had no husband , that the only man she 'd ever seen her with was — David Harland . |
| 12 | The décor of the room he showed her into was a complete contrast to that of the sitting-room , but just as garish . |
| 13 | The small living-room she took him into was made even smaller by the amount of stuff she had in there . |
| 14 | She had passed him once or twice , fleetingly , in the corridor , when all he had subjected her to was a brief ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 15 | Such thoughts were poor stimulus for a conscience-stricken appetite , and although the restaurant which Ven took her to was smart , and the food good , Fabia was able to eat only little . |
| 16 | Well , before the invention of sound recording — and indeed for some time after — the only thing people could compare it with was stenography . |
| 17 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 18 | What I tried to teach people was that if we did n't increase the added value , but took more of it and put it in our pockets , the only place we could take it from was the glass marked reinvestment and that makes people unemployed quicker than anything — and permanently . |
| 19 | One of the places he sent it to was Happy Towers in Edgbaston in Birmingham , which was a Mecca ballroom , and that was the first gig we did , complete with a revolving stage and everything . |
| 20 | The only format that looked appropriate to save it to was ‘ tiff ’ . |
| 21 | The first place they sent us to was a parish in the East End . |