Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I put the phone down on him on Friday that was it . |
| 2 | The offence was compounded when one Anthony Hurke released the animal from where it had been impounded and turned it back to the Down and was himself fined . |
| 3 | Item — Did Alexander III die on Kinghorn Ness or was it some cunning stratagem of the King ? |
| 4 | but I mean up until Stalingrad that was it , the , the Russian army was nothing , right , but as soon as Stalingrad came in every day |
| 5 | Er I one , went into one at Iceland that was it was lovely . |
| 6 | ‘ What we all want to find out I suppose : who killed Paul Gray and was it done with the regimental sword from the Infantry chapel ? ’ |
| 7 | An example to us all in this respect is professor John Honnold , who was responsible for the creation of UNCITRAL and was its first Secretary . |
| 8 | Was it Tony DeFries or was it David Bowie ? |
| 9 | During the first three millennia BC , two of the main concentrations of political power of the day , the Assyrian empire and Babylonia , lived in a state of near-permanent warfare , first with one another and then with the Persian kingdom of Elam , which at different times captured both Babylon and Ur and was itself in about 1100 BC laid waste by the Assyrians . |
| 10 | Erm they 're in no hurry to join but with this second period er from September or was it October and erm once again there is this idea that , you know , the tide is turning and they , they will now join erm they wo n't find it so hard to join as the rich peasants but once again they 're not as enthusiastic and maybe they should be but they are , they are helping more but er er and this is the key er for which you know Mao talked about later is that we 've got to get the middle peasant actually actively involved |
| 11 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 12 | Of his brothers the eldest , Lord Herbert of Cherbury , served as Ambassador to France and was himself a poet . |
| 13 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 14 | They meet in , do n't they meet in Leytonstone or was it Wanstead , somewhere in that area . |
| 15 | Did this mean therefore that in some way France had forfeited her position in Indochina and was she to be treated as an opponent rather than an ally ? |
| 16 | Well I know , but it was sad because in Gosport that was what keep most of them going , I mean like they said none of them have never been on the dole before , they 've all been there since they 've left school , there was a couple there |
| 17 | Erm , your , I think it was Dwayne or was it , it 's either Dwayne , or erm , er Bob knocked a glass over , and er , Jane was like erm , trying to like , she was like going Edward move away , I 'm trying to sh I 'm trying , look , I 'm trying to stop people dancing round here , and like , these , all this , this er , glass on the floor , right , Jane was standing there going like this , dancing round all this glass , and like she was going like this , and everyone that walked past , she was going , broken glass and she was saying , and she was , she kept on going broken glass , they done it . |
| 18 | You must admit it was erm I was thinking more of erm was it Laurel or was it Hardy ? |
| 19 | From Hastings that was you see . |