Example sentences of "was [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gentleman bocht the donkey fae MacGreigor — it was afore my day though — an it wes two or three days in the field at the front door . |
| 2 | A notable feature of the resultant controversy was that the British Medical Association , the virulent opponent of Aneurin Bevan in 1946 , was now most forceful in defending the health service , in denouncing the government for threatening its existence and failing to fund it as was properly required . |
| 3 | A supposedly famous photographer in the sixties , he was now most famous for the farce and frequency of his suicide attempts . |
| 4 | The setting sun — it was now mid-August , so the sun just dipped below the horizon — would round the headland of Flakstad village and dance over some tiny skerries off the shore . |
| 5 | It was now November , and coming home in the blackout caused me a little nervous anxiety at first . |
| 6 | It was now December and the weather would not co-operate ; day after day the fog came down . |
| 7 | It was now September . |
| 8 | When I had last been conscious it was June 28 — it was now July . |
| 9 | We evaluated the effect of the 1976 legislation on the issue of the anonymity of the rape survivor ; on the basis of press reporting in 1978 , we found that she was now most unlikely to be named , but identifying detail was still published . |
| 10 | What we are supposing is that everything could have been exactly as it was except for the non-occurrence of the smell of the candles . |
| 11 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 12 | ‘ This is just as it always was except that I usually have some of his sketch books , a few of his letters , and his work-book on display , but those things are on loan to the exhibition . ’ |
| 13 | What was once a convent is now a comfortable , welcoming hotel . |
| 14 | Circumstances change arid what was once a possible decision is no longer on offer . |
| 15 | The Stevens boys manned the ferry until the outbreak of was although Mabel often helped out . |
| 16 | Well Romeo was although he wanted to keep the peace , he was a chicken so I had to stick up for him cos I don I do n't like people doing that to my friends . |
| 17 | But wh what they said to me was although erm although it 's not a driving is not a major part of and your role was changing and whatever that means |
| 18 | As sprinter Mike MacFarlane said of his parents ' total lack of encouragement : ‘ It was 'cause they had n't got the time to think about it . ’ |
| 19 | But his elder brother John thinks that he knew better what the score was than he ever let on . |
| 20 | Albert was trying to work out how , much younger Percy was than he himself . |
| 21 | The officer was than joined from the next flat by security guard Christopher Coyle , 39 . |
| 22 | She was tirelessly willing to discuss things in the manner of the country ; to sit down with a landlord , for example , and answer such questions as whether England was smaller than London , and which of the two belonged to France , and how much larger the Turkish navy was than those of England , France and Russia put together . |
| 23 | It was than proposed we should have a vote about a vote . ’ |
| 24 | She told me how much more exciting Willesden was than rural Bedfordshire , despite the once a year trips to Milton Keynes . |
| 25 | I reckon it was cos he was so dirty and ate so slobbery . |
| 26 | And that was cos maybe it was too thick |
| 27 | Three where there used to be me , or Mary and er May , she was the youngest , she was only a baby May and Miss er May was cos she was the youngest . |
| 28 | Presumably this was cos there was a big erm a big surge on to rebuild the |
| 29 | Well smokers all clear or not I do n't know but th that even mentioned in that book Downham Reach and that talk about the Priory Farm where was cos that was all walking about all these smugglers at that time but the book I , the history I thought about do n't seem the same in the book now . |
| 30 | and that , well th well that was cos there used to be all hot cinders you know like coke , red hot coke and they always had clogs then with leather tops . |