Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [was/were] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 2 | Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me . |
| 3 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |
| 4 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 5 | The impression I got was that Leeds started off REALLY well with a totally dominant mid-field , that West Ham started to make a game of it but that the weather got worse & worse and the game just degenerated . |
| 6 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 7 | our congregation yesterday and erm the feeling I got was that erm we could n't support a minister ourselves , and we 're and , well at least the congregation think that they 're there entirely to help Salisbury Park . |
| 8 | The most important thing I learnt was that the lawyer 's job in local government is to help get things done rather than provide elegant reasons for doing nothing . |
| 9 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 10 | The first thing I noticed was that the whole of the top half of the house was swathed in what looked like green plastic bandages . |
| 11 | The first thing I noticed was that the Transit had gone and Armstrong was back in his place of honour outside No. 9 . |
| 12 | The thing I noticed was that they 're all close questions , you like the area , now Martin was very fair to you because you , he was very me most you could 've got very much did you move because of your , yes . |
| 13 | The only other downside I noticed was that the car tended to be a little ponderous in lower gears around town . |
| 14 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 15 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 16 | ‘ One thing in particular I noticed was that Liverpool girls do n't mind shelling out the money to get what they really want . |
| 17 | What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’ |
| 18 | I then gave a message to his secretary personal assistant and was told no the letter I receive was that I should n't go through something third hand you do n't see what the other side is . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the selling points when I joined was that I 'd be privy to scripts that I was never exposed to because I never had an agent . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 21 | What I figured was that EC ai n't playing like EC used to play any more , so I played exactly as if it was a garage band from Seattle ! |
| 22 | The other thing that I remember was that this session was very quick . |
| 23 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 24 | The last trouble I remember was when they played Birmingham City in the Cup last season . |
| 25 | ‘ The last I heard was that he 's on the run from the authorities in Beirut . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
| 27 | ‘ The last thing I heard was that she 'd gone to America and married some newspaper magnate twice her age . |
| 28 | All I heard was that you 'd come back in a taxi the worse for wear . |
| 29 | The next I heard was when I had a complete breakdown of Robert and Janet 's income erm with the breakdown of how a new settlement was was brought about . |
| 30 | ‘ The first thing I decided was that my hair had to come off . ’ |