Example sentences of "was i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was I tell you he was resurrected again . |
| 2 | Good so that was I like that because you worked it out you did n't look it with table you |
| 3 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 4 | My ethos was I 've got a lot of money , but I 've got to look after the people as far as I can who have helped to produce it and I am going to make it grow bigger for our successors . |
| 5 | There 's a horrible Rutter one in there , which was I 've never . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember exactly what it was but there was I 've got a very strong memory of |
| 7 | And the funny thing was I 've |
| 8 | Whatever it was I 've heard worse . |
| 9 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 10 | About utility furniture , well you know the G Plans that now that there is , well this utility furniture to my mind if you choose really good makes of your utility furniture it was rather , after the style I would say G Plan , that was I 've always imagined it were , it was good quality of , of a price that people could afford , if you got the right erm , type of stuff . |
| 11 | On the hotel the sequence was I 've got to do the first-fix plumbing before I do the second-fix plumbing . |
| 12 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 13 | Ya I was I 've been thinking of trying to have a big delivery of something . |
| 14 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
| 15 | They 'd need an affidavit to say This is not mine , it belongs to Mr er whatever his name was I 've forgotten it now . |
| 16 | She had erm it was I wish I had her hair cos , you know |
| 17 | Fourpence ha'penny a pound this New Zealand lamb was I remember . |
| 18 | It was I remember reading in the paper that it 's been it 's been filmed at a house which no one 's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions , it was not Bradley Hall |
| 19 | Was I shy ? |
| 20 | Do you know , I was frightened of her — or was I shy ? |
| 21 | Yeah as I say , that unit trust thing I was I know it 's not the safest investment but it never was the safest investment . |
| 22 | And he was I know he was chubby but he was quite short . |
| 23 | Nor was I exempt , being plastered with a particularly smelly preparation , which would look to those not in the know like ripe cow dung . |
| 24 | ‘ Shall I tell you what it was I put my hand into , Jas ? ’ |
| 25 | Well obviously I have it wh what I did was I put a bit of hummus in each of their handbags right |
| 26 | So that that was I mean he just had been paid so it was |
| 27 | She is , was I mean , a very ancient saint . |
| 28 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 29 | Yeah that was I mean them , men , men were working like we was talking about a little while ago about head bags |
| 30 | But I mean it 's it er it was great I mean the fact that I was I mean in in Aberdeen I was away from home , I mean you did n't even notice it , because of the number of Orcadians that popped in by the hospital and as I said sent cards and letters , it was great . |