Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was just saying that this year it would be hopefully everybody will go through it . |
| 2 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 3 | Perhaps she was roughly treated before you owned her . |
| 4 | Under the circumstances then , perhaps it was wisely ordered that I never found a man to form that special relationship . |
| 5 | Perhaps normally it was only hidden and distorted by the combered flesh , the yellowed eyes and teeth . |
| 6 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 7 | Like I was just saying if we were going to a |
| 8 | He had already dreamt about her often , but usually she was fully dressed and smiling enigmatically as she waited on him , bringing him food and wine . |
| 9 | That always made her reach , in agitation , for something else , so that when they finally set off she was already exhausted and Paul was angry and full of contempt . |
| 10 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that Thorn EMI had failed to sell its defence business after trying for five months . |
| 11 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that glamorous Suzannah Dwyer told her devastated husband of her romance 24 hours before Bates went public with the news at a press conference . |
| 12 | More than once he was sadly mistaken and duly disappointed with the human material at hand ; nonetheless , he succeeded in transforming an almost dormant pre-1939 Law School at University College , London , into a flourishing and internationally leading Law Faculty . |
| 13 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 14 | Later it was also decided that special 10-day visas would be issued covering the period of the conference . |
| 15 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
| 16 | Six days later it was officially listed as missing and frantic bosses sent out a fax to signalmen : |
| 17 | And now she was doubly determined that Janice would never be her mother . |
| 18 | Here and now she was actually standing and talking with the great Vendelin Gajdusek ! |
| 19 | Apart from rifling the chests of the Excise offices in the towns they had occupied , the Scots had while in England behaved with remarkable correctness , but now they were increasingly described as thieves and ruffians , an attitude epitomised by the verses written about a group of Yorkshire sportsmen who formed themselves into a unit of amateur warriors known as ‘ The Royal Hunters ’ : |
| 20 | Only June and Ethel knew who his father was and now they were both gone and they had not told anyone . |
| 21 | When the details began to trickle out it was reluctantly conceded that perhaps two Boeing 707 shipments might have been made . |
| 22 | The peasants tore up and burned the copies they received ; and often it was simply ignored and the singing of hymns in Latin continued . |
| 23 | He used to take some wool , but mainly he was there to sell and his cart carried samples . |
| 24 | Well I was just wondering whether I could reserve that for sort of summing up |
| 25 | basket well I was just saying and them chairs to do . |
| 26 | Well I was only thinking that there 's not much on the television so |
| 27 | Well they were still working when we left . |
| 28 | Even if they had no records and had n't bothered to enquire before they inducted the man , surely they were better placed than she was . |
| 29 | Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 per cent of the vote . |
| 30 | Here he was carefully debriefed and given the codename Sniper , while MI5 codenamed him Lavinia . |