Example sentences of "[vb base] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dior scored a recent success with the launch of Dune , which industry sources say was among the most popular lines at Christmas . |
| 2 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 3 | to go backwards and forwards and I 'll try this I think yeah and the last time you say was in September |
| 4 | Our participants lived on a large 1960s council estate on the outskirts of a county town and the schoolrooms they describe were in the local comprehensive school situated on the estate . |
| 5 | The prophets they portray were at once more civilized than their masters and more closely in touch with the divine will . |
| 6 | Usually he got palmed off with the Mile End Road , stabbings in Chinatown , Lascars , opium dens — you name it , Stitch was on the case . |
| 7 | The old Five Bells we know was of this date and is one of the buildings that can be identified . |
| 8 | Thus we can assert that the kingdom of Cunobelin ( Shakespeare 's Cymbeline ) , whose capital and mint we know was at Camulodonum ( Colchester ) , extended over most of Essex and Hertfordshire . |
| 9 | This girl we know was in Germany and they were doing a PA and she ran up to Richard Fm and said ‘ I 've come all the way from England to see you ’ — which was a complete lie — and she said , ‘ Can I have a signed photo ? ’ |
| 10 | The last decent performance I remember was vs Stuttgart at Leeds . |
| 11 | ‘ The first time I remember was at home , ’ said Marian . |
| 12 | The part I vividly remember was about a South Seas tramp steamer captain . |
| 13 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 14 | Thus , on the facts of the instant case , goes the argument , the fact that the proceedings against the respondent were postponed until the proceedings against the Murphy brothers were concluded ( despite the fact that such postponement as we find was in practice almost inevitable ) amounts to a breach of Magna Carta chapter 29 . |
| 15 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 16 | On the front , front cover you 've got the portrait of William Shakespeare that , that you claim was in fact a painted over portrait of er , of de Vere . |
| 17 | The usual ration of affront , resentment , even anger was in her . |
| 18 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 19 | That look I think was for when he next meets Gareth Gilcock . |
| 20 | which I think was about |
| 21 | That I think was about Tuesday . |
| 22 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 23 | It started off all in Melior , with the text — the text I think was in Melior or Melior tells me that the text was originally in Melior with ordinary Melior headings , then when it appeared it was Nimrod with Melior bold . |
| 24 | The do was at the home of one of the female directors of the firm . |
| 25 | But luckily help was at hand in the person of Anna-Lisa Hammer , a blonde , Norwegian freelance journalist who was also the Press Officer for the Bislet Games in Oslo . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean that , when the client suggested giving our sales force a taste of the product they were selling , I had to put it all together at ultra-short notice — and the only way I managed to get my people to drop everything and come was by stressing how much I relied on each of them individually . |
| 27 | The EAT was of the opinion that there was no reason to distinguish an illness caused by pregnancy or childbirth from other illnesses , since although certain illnesses affect only one sex , male and female employees are equally affected by illness overall . |
| 28 | see were on a bit of a |
| 29 | But did you realize that dare was for you ? |
| 30 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |