Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was before I did my Leaving . |
| 2 | And additional cross-tabulations not included in Appendix I showed that two per cent of those buying for cash said that this was because they thought they probably would n't be able to get credit . |
| 3 | They had faith in him , and I believe that this was because they knew he had faith in them . |
| 4 | This was because he used them as guidebooks . |
| 5 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 6 | Twenty one was when you finished your apprenticeship , |
| 7 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 8 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 9 | ‘ That was before we found her handbag , ’ said Tim . |
| 10 | But that was before I met you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Madame Gebrec , I know I said I would help you , but that was before I understood what you wanted of me . |
| 12 | That was before I knew you . |
| 13 | That was before she met him . |
| 14 | That was before she chose you , so she may have told you more than she intended . ’ |
| 15 | But that was before she took her baby brother to Wickham Common . |
| 16 | That was before he told you the news ? ’ |
| 17 | But that was before he lost his family . |
| 18 | That was after she hit me ! |
| 19 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 20 | That was until he saw what was on the front page . |
| 21 | But that was until she met her Johnny ( and that was his christian name ) . |
| 22 | no I did n't , I never liked it , whether that was because I knew we were n't gon na be there , or , you know , I just , I was only there six months |
| 23 | He recalled : ‘ I certainly gave two very bad TV interviews that gave the impression that things were all wrong , all uptight , but that was because I felt it necessary to defend the players . ’ |
| 24 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 25 | It was soy , of course , not meat , that formed the filling inside the thin shells of dough , but that was as he wished it . |
| 26 | Even though that was as you put it , the obvious place for . |