Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 2 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
| 3 | no where we went was the erm well where we went first was the Dunkirk , did n't like what we hear in there , so we went from the Dunkirk and tried to get in the erm Smithfield hotel , we were unable to do that |
| 4 | Where we went was |
| 5 | The whole Cabinet agreed that there should be a cut in the amount that the unemployed were receiving ; where they disagreed was in whether this should include a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 6 | The humble agent had now virtually disappeared , and where he survived was not seen as having any diplomatic status ; but relatively new categories of chargé d'affaires and secretary of embassy or of legation were appearing . |
| 7 | In all these inquiries the main conclusions were that abuse of patients where it existed was the consequence of acute shortages of staff , overcrowding and lack of facilities for patients and that general neglect pervaded in subnormality hospitals . |
| 8 | M. A. Boscq , Ingenieur-General , Ministere de l'Agriculture Services Regionaux at Lempdes ensured that more information than I required was made available to me ; M.Jean Leblanc of his staff went to considerable lengths to both provide and help interpret various policy papers and reams of data . |
| 9 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 10 | The fact that he had a lower sex drive than she did was n't considered unreasonable behaviour . |
| 11 | Playing like we played was n't lying at all , it was nothing to do with lying . |
| 12 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 13 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 14 | The last thought that flittered across her mind before she slept was that she would have given everything she possessed , sold her immortal soul , for Michele to have loved her as the Lion of Venice had loved his Lucia . |
| 15 | Mr Frederick Garnet , 81 , said : ‘ The last thing she said to us before she left was that she would have some very good news for the family when she came home . |
| 16 | One of her last utterances in hospital just before she died was , ‘ Do n't talk to me about God . ’ |
| 17 | Bef before you left was your job ? |
| 18 | Whether he noticed was unclear ; probably not , since he made the eminently logical suggestion that they should drive to Randall Lodge together , and to her chagrin she could think of no good reason to refuse . |
| 19 | The day before he left was a Saturday and Nick and Carrie were going to spend it helping to harvest the small hay field at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 20 | Mr Tholen is a governor and trustee of Yarm School and says : ‘ The one thing the area was lacking when I came was day education for boys . |
| 21 | But what I found when I went was I had to go through the psychiatrist to find this group cos it was n't available . |
| 22 | The last thing he said when I left was , ‘ Tell Jean I 'm still as much in love with her as ever . ’ ’ |
| 23 | Though what came into my mind when I realized was n't Cogito , ergo sum . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Unfortunately , I had not read Mary Shelley 's novel since I was a lad ; such recollection of it as I had was obscured by the travesties of it I had watched in 4-D on film , TV , and CirC . |
| 26 | Much better than the copy that I had made , which as I said was this miniature sideways thatched farmhouse there in the right margin . |
| 27 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 28 | The view down Deepdale as I climbed was beautiful . |
| 29 | When , when you left was there any sort of erm did you get a send-off or any sort of recognition of all the work you 've done or anything ? |
| 30 | To pull out of the Sunday Madness gig when you did was lower than low . |