Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there was , from the platform , evidence of considerable care and attention being paid to the potential physical hazards of the industry , little or nothing was said by the industry 's speakers about the effects of chemicals or their by-products on the environment . |
| 2 | Then says Mr. Daniel , ‘ Yes , but that is a future consideration and a future consideration , if nothing were done under it or nothing was proved to be done , would fail . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm going to the Swindon match next Saturday & I was wondering if there was any chance of a lift from deepest London ? |
| 4 | Something or someone was following them , treading through the trees on the side of the track . |
| 5 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 6 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 7 | When I first moved from India ( where I was born ) to England , I obviously had a great tan , and I got called ‘ Indibum ’ and all.that . |
| 8 | In Mongu Town , where I was born , there lived a merry maid , up high in banana tree ! ’ |
| 9 | No idea where I was born . |
| 10 | In Scarlet Town , where I was born |
| 11 | Well where I was born in Needham Market |
| 12 | ‘ Or the bit of land where I was born , ’ she added lamely . |
| 13 | I thought we 'd got such a good start , knowing my mother 's name and where I was born . ’ |
| 14 | Early next morning we approached Port Augusta where I was getting off . |
| 15 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 16 | She forced me back into the hall , where I was bound to run into Father . |
| 17 | After the game I immediately went to hospital , where I was detained overnight . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a cellar with a trap door under that bit where I was locked in . |
| 19 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 20 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 21 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 22 | I 'd met the Parsons a week earlier , at an end-of-term social at the language school where I was teaching . |
| 23 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 24 | The food in the Gasthof Widman where I was staying was remarkable . |
| 25 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 26 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 27 | We inched again past the thundering monster and its second string to the rear , and emerged at last into the clattering reverberating peace of the baggage car where I was reunited with my waistcoat . |
| 28 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 29 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 30 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |