Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was saying the exact same thing cos I was and he acts as my . |
| 2 | It did n't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got into hospital and they sent for a cameraman to photograph me because they had never seen anyone survive injuries like mine and they wanted a record . |
| 3 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 4 | I know I was when I worked in fruit packing , it 's like someone drops an orange , Urgh urgh urgh ! |
| 5 | I was in the Drama Club when I was when I stayed at home , but we did n't do pantomimes , we we did plays , one act plays , and three act plays , we did three act plays . |
| 6 | Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 . |
| 7 | She did n't know where she was and she longed to be back in the cottage where it was safe . |
| 8 | The conversation about oxtail had made her realise how hungry she was and she stopped at a delicatessen shop on the way home and bought a pizza . |
| 9 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 10 | I felt there was when you wrote to me to explain why you would n't be at home that day . |
| 11 | At least she assumed that was who they were as they walked with Leo down the lane towards her ; she did n't wait to be introduced . |
| 12 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 13 | Right , the arch braces of course had to be put in because they were if you look at it you 'll see that they were actually sawn off . |
| 14 | Der summat like that , and his wife had a baby at the same time as Elaine 's so she our midwife would come and er , so the she kept in touch really of of what they were because they wanted to , I 'll take the place off , they wanted to take it over . |
| 15 | What was interesting about those MPs who were swift to defend him was that they come from the traditional working-class wing of the parliamentary party — people like Jimmy Hood , or Aberdeen North 's Bob Hughes . |
| 16 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |
| 17 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 18 | ‘ It was before you came to England , I suppose ? ’ |
| 19 | Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop . |
| 20 | where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording . |
| 21 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 22 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 23 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 24 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 25 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
| 26 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 27 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 28 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 29 | It was after I thought about that that I began moving my things to the cave . |
| 30 | there 's nothing wonderful about the cotton , but the cushions look absolutely superb because there were just thin lines of the , you can tell it was when you looked at it quite cheap ribbon but just arranged in a beautiful square and then a little bit of lace . |