Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair . |
| 2 | My mum and dad could n't understand why I was so shite at it ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Madeleine , Mrs Appleby is a person , not just a cook ; and in the days when I lived at Maythorpe House , she was enormously kind to me , ’ Harry said . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , she had invariably done her best for her child as , indeed , she was now doing for her grandchild . |
| 5 | She was always kind to me and she was the only neighbour Mum could really trust . |
| 6 | Now she was safely east-north-east in her green canopy , her pale lips laughing at them all . |
| 7 | It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon . |
| 8 | There had not been a crisis for about six months , though , so it was clearly time for one . |
| 9 | Some signal had obviously been given , though Alexandra had not seen it , and now it was plainly time for everyone to turn and talk to their other neighbour . |
| 10 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 11 | It was completely ignorance on his part in that respect . |
| 12 | It was completely ignorance on his part in that respect . |
| 13 | It was surely part of her duty to find out what finally happened to the seductive female spread out on the front cover . |
| 14 | It was surely time for me to take life more seriously . |
| 15 | So it was just kind of what ever enthusiasm there was washed away with that . |
| 16 | It was just part of our tradition . " |
| 17 | Although she remembered the words perfectly well , Constance merely said , ‘ Oh , nothing , it was just part of your general racket . ’ |
| 18 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 19 | And there 's nothing wrong with her it was just sort of it 's just nerves is n't it ? |
| 20 | It was invariably embarrassment at what he was about to impart which made Lord Darlington adopt such an approach , and even once the study door was closed behind us , he would often stand by the window and make a show of consulting the encyclopedia throughout our conversation . |
| 21 | It was now part of their ingrained thinking that the newspaper barons were imposing their standards on the population by rewriting the language of tabloid journalism . |
| 22 | It was now time for him to call in his battlegroup to tell his men of their achievements . |
| 23 | It was perhaps part of his general attempt to calm her fears , but it is a potent indication that there was an underlying fear and she was not properly informed that no alternative was available . |
| 24 | It was almost time for her appointment . |
| 25 | It was almost time for her mistress 's luncheon , and she went towards the back of the hall to the breakfast parlour , one of the few rooms still in use , to see if Mrs Diggory had as yet laid out the tray . |
| 26 | It was only guesswork on her part , naturally , but it 's more than probable that she 's right . |
| 27 | ‘ I meant , it was only lust for you — not that I — ’ It did n't seem to make any more sense this way . |
| 28 | Beyond , the road becomes pot-holed — it was only gravel at its best — as it continues to a headland where it is blocked by a rock fall . |
| 29 | He was already rich , powerful , successful beyond anything Swift could have given him , and that meant only one thing — he had not married her to become chairman of a vast investment house , because he was already chairman of his own ! |
| 30 | When the Friar reached the point where the horses had been caught and where Marian and Hugh escaped into the woods he was barely half-an-hour behind them . |