Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | Now I know said I was but I give the impression from that if you shake hands with them you should count your fingers afterwards |
2 | I 'm going to tell you right away that , although I was n't a virgin when we married , I was until I left the train with Ludovico . |
3 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
4 | I know where she was and I know the woman looks after her well . ’ |
5 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
6 | so that 's how close we were when we had the blow out thing . |
7 | Not only do a greater proportion of phone boxes work , but there are more boxes today than there were before we introduced the privatised control system . |
8 | The suggestion there was that we derive the account of justification from that of knowledge , thus : a is justified in believing p iff in certain circumstances a would know that p . |
9 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
10 | ‘ The last I saw of him was as he entered the bedroom , ’ Petion replied . |
11 | Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year . |
12 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
13 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
14 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
15 | This regular weekly contact , together with the organised group visits , meant that the students approached teaching practice knowing that they could organise a lesson in terms of defining in advance what it was that they wanted the children to learn how to do ; and then , by working backwards , sort out their materials , activities and procedures . |
16 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
17 | From the first day they completely opted out , wandering around saying how beautiful it was while we dug the vegetable garden . |
18 | It was after he broke the engagement that the real craziness started . |
19 | perhaps it was when we had the census paper |
20 | On any model , when knitting the neckline , start with the second side of the neck with the carriage on the same side as it was when you started the first side of the neck . |
21 | Because this is a hell of a lot damper today than what it was when I had the salt about you . |
22 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
23 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
24 | It was as she put the last plate on the table that the door opened and Carrie Smith entered the kitchen . |
25 | But if I overstepped the mark it was because you made the running . ’ |
26 | Maybe it was because she had the advantage of the high ground and was looking down on me . |
27 | Walter Robins told him it was because he antagonised the fasties by doffing his cap after evading a bouncer ( Randall used to infuriate Lillee in this way ) ; Barrington , though , was only being his naturally jolly self . |
28 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
29 | It was because he liked the idea of death , because he wanted to talk about it . |
30 | Tug had forgotten what day it was until he heard the bells . |