Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the only one he had found himself wanting to see was this girl . |
| 2 | What you could have done say was this one here that 's marked E does n't have to be all of those who supported Everton , it could be just that bit . |
| 3 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 4 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
| 5 | Still , the idea that they could have had the kind of torrid relationship that leads to murder was another matter . |
| 6 | What I was going to get was another matter again . |
| 7 | but it is the case that twenty two per cent of crimes are committed by women , erm and I think that the situation with women committing crime is quite complex and complicated one , erm that really needs quite er , a great detail of discussion , and one of the , the points I was going to make was this question of feeling guilty |
| 8 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 9 | ‘ What we were beginning to miss was that quality of life that we should have had , ’ he says . |
| 10 | The pattern of welfare benefits which had become established was that of social insurance covering the major causes of loss of income and paying flat-rate benefits at no more than survival level with a residual public assistance scheme for those in desperate need who were not covered by social insurance . |
| 11 | The last I remember thinking was that Syl should marry my mother , his contemporary , and that then perhaps I would have to call him Daddy . |
| 12 | Another case in which good relationships would have helped was that of an attention seeking woman who had spent most of her life in hostels and was constantly getting struck off general practitioners ' lists . |
| 13 | What he should also have realized was that , although the play had been a flop , The Wit To Woo demonstrated to Ken that the producer was a man to be trusted . |
| 14 | But the point that Anna failed to grasp was that without the money it would never have occurred to him to marry her . |
| 15 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |
| 16 | Creeping up on one , all they managed to steal was some food . |
| 17 | All I did know was that Scamp took a few steps forward into the street while stuffing home fresh cartridges . |
| 18 | What they did not seem to perceive was that non-intervention in the Spanish conflict was part of the policy of appeasement then being followed by the western powers , or that , even if a European war began before the Spanish conflict were settled , the European democracies would be reluctant to take on extended commitments , especially if this meant running the risk — as they saw it — of assisting communism on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 19 | One business outing I did attend was that of the Association of Independent Railways ( AIR ) board . |
| 20 | By the end of the project , perhaps the most important message to have emerged was that language development is an incremental , integrated process . |
| 21 | One film part that Crawford did accept was that of the White Rabbit in Alice 's Adventures In Wonderland , which he made by day at Pinewood Studios during the stage run of No Sex , Please . |
| 22 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 23 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 24 | Moreover , the material upon which he had to work was that of the early stages of industrial capitalism and of the working-class political movement , so that in any case it would be essential to review his theory in the light of subsequent historical experience . |
| 25 | The one I 've seen was that one on the front page . |
| 26 | He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash . |
| 27 | But what she had to remember was that , however convincing he might sound on details , there was a hard core of fact that even Luke Hunter could never explain away . |
| 28 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 29 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 30 | But what it does show was that , in 1979 , small savers were treated the same as larger savers . |