Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Well what really set my mind was when I lost my sister and my brother . |
2 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
3 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
4 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
5 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
6 | My first impression of the JMU was that I hope they do n't visit us , ’ admitted Robert Dicketts , South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants president and partner of Sevenoaks-based Lee Dicketts & Co . |
7 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
8 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
9 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
10 | I hope that the Minister is more successful with his new portfolio than his predecessors were and I wish him all the best in the difficult task that lies ahead of him . |
11 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
12 | John Harlow directed a series of films for British National , but probably his biggest success was While I Live which featured the very popular music the Dream of . |
13 | ‘ My main thought was if I offer him my car how will I get to work tomorrow , and also if I give him the car will I be able to collect the insurance ? |
14 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
15 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
16 | ‘ You know , the worst thing was that I missed it . ’ |
17 | Er last time I went to the doctor was when I hurt my back . |
18 | Nobody must have been his bombardier , mine was and my navigator was and I see his would have been . |
19 | I 'll tell you what my present was and I think you 'll understand . |
20 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |
21 | I did n't realise how clear her speech was until I heard it on the tape . |