Example sentences of "was [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 that was Highton you know , not Liverpool
2 Where there was money they played .
3 It was money I was never expecting .
4 on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its .
5 So he went down and it was Kelly he spoke to and er she said he
6 What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell .
7 Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know .
8 N o , n o , it was n 't me .
9 All she had to do was stick it out until his return .
10 It was William he loved , William could n't bear to lose .
11 The only eagle who can settle her is Minch … was Minch I should say , ’ he added sadly .
12 Yes and it was Ramsey you called him .
13 Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’
14 He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well .
15 I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man .
16 But it was Friday she did it , and Thursday we were expecting her , so there would have been time when she had .
17 It always makes me think because last time we saw an accident like that it was Penny you know what I mean ?
18 The fine for such an offence when this rule had been applied to the original directors of the House of Industry in 1794 was £20 it had now risen to £100 .
19 One of the great characters of the cutter fleet at that time was Leo Brock , ex P & 0 purser and when he was chef he demanded an assistant — and got one .
20 And the fairies was boat you see but they were kind of wandering kind of things .
21 In Darlington it was ties he was after , opting for a restrained paisley pattern at £7.99 to replace his classic blue and white polka dot number .
22 Who this might be he could not tell , but if it was Balliol he had donned more clothing , which seemed unlikely , in the rush .
23 If it was murder we shall be informed in the Family 's good time .
24 They had dug up those bones at Wyvis Hall and had decided it was murder they were investigating .
25 She was Jonah I expect .
26 There 's lads of real trouble there , but there was lads you know young lads with kids and mortgages and and we had er he I 'm sixty all your worries are over are n't they .
27 All he had to do was wind it up again to find the way out .
28 Something that came up yesterday was interview you had , and Graham to make the comment , and he , he was trying to make the point that he , what he said , what he recommended , would have to be taken up by the council , and actually by the council when it happened .
29 Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there .
30 If this was delusion it was given a sense of realism in the immediate post-war world through the UK economy being clearly stronger than the economies of either Europe or Japan [ Barnett , 1972 ; Maddison , 1984 ] .
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