Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what made me laugh was this police woman saying , it annoys me , if you have a drink you should n't drive , and I thought to myself and I bet |
| 2 | Yeah , oh all I got was that book with a statement , statement book . |
| 3 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 4 | I need some le er the , I wanted a carton of live yoghurt I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't , it was natural , but it said mild flavoured |
| 5 | I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't it was natural , but it said mild flavoured and I do n't think it was the proper like the Greek style really live yoghurt that would have started all the fungus growing on it . |
| 6 | ‘ The most expensive ingredient that I used was fresh tomatoes . |
| 7 | Previously , all the theory I learnt was head stuff . |
| 8 | For his second shot , which I estimated was 160 yards into a strong wind , Peter said , ‘ Jacky , I think it 's a 5-iron . ’ |
| 9 | One of the girls I taught was this girl Hilda Syms , and she got a crush on me . |
| 10 | I was too frightened , all I heard was 3 shots , a bump and a scream . |
| 11 | The last the last quality entertainment video that I watched was Pretty Woman but I did n't like it . |
| 12 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |
| 13 | Derek had another inspiration : what I needed was fresh air . |
| 14 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 15 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 16 | I went in first and all I saw was standard classroom with a blackboard down one wall , two lines of plain tables and some wooden chairs . |
| 17 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 18 | Well what I saw was some tail lights going along the road . |
| 19 | ‘ We wo n't ! ’ called Quigley , with what I feared was misplaced optimism . |
| 20 | All I thought was that health monitor basically follows it but it just needs a , a little bit of clarification so that everybody knows exactly when forms are supposed to be produced . |
| 21 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 22 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 23 | In one store the manager tried to sell me what I thought was obsolete software . |
| 24 | ‘ Robert would have turned the fire extinguisher on you , ’ said my mother with what I thought was unusual perception . |
| 25 | All I understood was one word : Chagall . ’ |
| 26 | So there were two things that er well or perhaps more than two from matters arising from the minutes , er the Chad for the tickets , I think was one thing that was , |
| 27 | And I , I recall seeing the lowest contribution I think was fifty pence , was n't it ? |
| 28 | Ken commented earlier that er er prior to the Financial Services Act coming into force which I think was some time in nineteen eighty-eight , the er D T I was responsible and there come back to the D T I if these sort of things had applied and er compensation effectively by the D T I for mal-administration or whatever so that er say we do n't pretend to be pension experts , so any retrospection that I would suggest might well be appropriate as at the date of the Financial Services Act becoming into force . |
| 29 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
| 30 | At school , all I learned was that sex was wicked . |