Example sentences of "was [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was money I was never expecting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The only eagle who can settle her is Minch … was Minch I should say , ’ he added sadly . |
| 4 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 5 | She was Jonah I expect . |
| 6 | All you had to do was telephone me , and I would have come at once to look after Kirsty . ’ |
| 7 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |
| 8 | cos this was Croydon I 'm pretty sure it yeah because otherwise she could n't have the basic from last year would she ? |
| 9 | ‘ Because the tape was evidence I could use against him . |
| 10 | Miss Jeanette told Teesside Crown Court : ‘ As a policeman came across Darren said ‘ If he asks where I was say I was with you . ’ ’ |
| 11 | Well it was a kind of fur coat but it was rabbit I think , it was . |
| 12 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 13 | And he was er from it was Jack I remember him well , an old man . |
| 14 | As soon as they realised my charge was arson I was left to sit in the cubicle : everybody else disappeared . |
| 15 | Solicitors , I suppose — if it was mine I 'll find new ones . ’ |
| 16 | She said ‘ If it was mine I 'd do it Jim Dine … |
| 17 | But er the school , I think it was Rudling I , I 've often tried to find it but I I 'm not sure which one i , you know , for |
| 18 | Somebody was telling me that erm some careers service It was Steve I was talking to in the car the other night . |
| 19 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 20 | It was sex I was worrying about . |
| 21 | I do n't think it was romance I thought he kept her in chocolates and cigarettes . |
| 22 | It was love I felt ; yes , when I have read your books I feel more loving , and it is no use being alive if one does n't feel that . ’ |
| 23 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 24 | Each time we went to bed , you 'd realize that it was Andrew I wanted to lay with . |
| 25 | then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she |
| 26 | And it was only about we i it was wi within a couple of minutes , or , probably less Jim came in er I think he was , I do n't know where he 'd been cos his day off was Thursday I think . |
| 27 | That was Thursday I put it out all I told you did n't I ? |
| 28 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 29 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 30 | My mum sa , and then it was dad me . |