Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were just as I remembered them . |
| 2 | There was also a boy called and a girl called who were there and I see them two and every morning as I walk to school . |
| 3 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 4 | Mm I mean he looked at me like I was a bit silly and it was only when I got it and looked he 'd got after Christmas written |
| 5 | It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me ! |
| 6 | And then it was only because I knew I was going to have to leave at the crack of dawn on Friday , and I would n't have time to fix anything up . ’ |
| 7 | Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does . |
| 8 | He was exactly as I remembered him , that June night after our fishing . |
| 9 | It was just after I found I was pregnant , but I was so pleased for him , and for myself , I did not fret . |
| 10 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 11 | I ca n't remember what it was now but I know there 's a way to move it up again , I think oh unless you put it there and press backspace just above |
| 12 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 13 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 14 | It was then that I noticed something suspicious . |
| 15 | It was then that I made my mind up . |
| 16 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 18 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 19 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
| 20 | It was then that I saw her wild , inhuman face ! |
| 21 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 22 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 23 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 24 | It was there that I made my one and only good find , not of course taking into account the brass washout pipe plate . |
| 25 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |
| 26 | J.B. Because Father Curtis was there and I thought you know he wo n't want some married woman who goes round not wearing a wedding ring in charge of all these kids will he ? |
| 27 | And erm our local er press was there and I think he went away and phoned up straight away t to Quix and said , Oh well you know they were twenty five to thirty women in Blaenau I never you know sort of their not your usual erm politicals if you like you know they just . |
| 28 | The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little . |
| 29 | Well it was there when I came I do n't know where it Yes . |
| 30 | Now er it was n't that night I said it , it was afterwards so I said what did you think about the concert then ? |