Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason and conscience both told me that if I were ever to have any chance of escaping successfully this was that chance . |
| 2 | This was why Louisa Agnew had chosen the title of that text for her epitaph ; and if he and I were ever to unravel that secret , he said , we should get back to work . |
| 3 | In the paragraph of which she complains I was briefly putting each side 's case as outlined to the inquiry . |
| 4 | I was previously commenting that Id like us to score another and break the 2 goal hoodoo . |
| 5 | I was simply given some down to earth instruction on techniques . |
| 6 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 7 | I was just thinking that way as well . |
| 8 | ‘ I was just playing each ball on its merits and hoping things went my way , ’ said Arthurton . |
| 9 | I was just letting that record finish . |
| 10 | Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north . |
| 11 | I was already doing this job and so I went back because there they were going there there 's a solicitor going to earn me erm er somewhere in the region of a hundred and seventy pound commission . |
| 12 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 13 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 14 | Assistant bar manager Sarah , 21 , said : ‘ I was always taught that honesty is the best policy . ’ |
| 15 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 16 | That was one reason why I was so exhausted that morning . |
| 17 | Or , as one of my students once put it to me , ironically , when I was still preaching this gospel , ‘ I know , Sir , it was racism what dun n it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was only thinking this morning in bed , that others never really knew what we shared . |
| 19 | Now , I was only thinking this morning when I was in your bathroom you 've got lots of bubble bath left over from Christmas . |
| 20 | I did notice those remarks , which were widely reported this morning . |
| 21 | They heard Peter slam the car door , then pull down the groaning metal garage door , then approach the house along the path of concrete slabs which were lethally glazed all year round with slippery green . |
| 22 | Mozart reported to Constanze that Carl loved the opera ( which was also attended that night by his old enemy Salieri ) , and then went on to discuss the shortcomings of Carl 's education — just like any other anxious parent . |
| 23 | This was in part a response to an upsurge in militant opposition to food shortages and profiteering which was simultaneously driving many trade unionists into cooperation . |
| 24 | She sat down on the bench opposite to him and looked at his fat baby face , which was now showing some concern . |
| 25 | Then , at Imola , Niki again failed to finish — he was , I recall , disgusted with himself and with the engine , which was still having some teething problems — and Prost won . |
| 26 | Hefner himself was soon to develop this idea in his so-called ‘ Playboy Philosophy ’ at tedious length . |
| 27 | In 1982 , 30% of jobless 16 and 17 year olds on supplementary benefit had family heads who were also receiving this benefit ( Roll , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | The fifth-century kings of Macedon , and indeed those of the fourth century till Philip acceded in 359 , imported Greek culture — Pindar wrote a poem for Alexander I in the 490s — while keeping at spear 's length the Greeks who were actually manufacturing that culture . |
| 29 | When you were finally given this flat in February this year , you must have been over the moon . |
| 30 | She was just boiling some water when the door opened and Julius walked in . |