Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I saw buildings coming up , I drove the Felder off the track behind an outcrop of rock , where I hoped it was both safe and unobtrusive for the night . |
| 2 | Or I thought it was . |
| 3 | ‘ He was still nice , or I thought he was . |
| 4 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 5 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 6 | I , I can remember once I , I think it was Hill , or I think it was Estate , it was quite a new estate in those , in those days when I , when I was there . |
| 7 | She was strangled all right , or I suppose she was . |
| 8 | I did n't get any say in the matter of how big or which brand it was , but the barmaid smiled sweetly and said ‘ Merci ’ when I paid her , because they all pretend to be French even if they are n't . |
| 9 | For he 'd known she would n't go , that he was perfectly safe , that she was not the type to impose herself where she knew she was n't wanted . |
| 10 | No well it was n't the scheme he worked on , he would go round and sort your cooker or you know he was that , maintenance , the maintenance side . |
| 11 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 12 | It was all about money or you know there was n't a great deal of political activity or , or great deal of political work done in , in the Labour Party . |
| 13 | And erm er where we lived it was adjacent to what I call Well . |
| 14 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 15 | Er , that 's a difficult question because we bought er anywhere we could er , and where we thought there was leather that we could make a small profit on . |
| 16 | Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great |
| 17 | ’ We stopped her and took her into the back room where we found she was n't fat at all . |
| 18 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 19 | The drive is lined all the way by graceful lime trees and provides the first hint as to the verity of Tennyson 's description of Gunby Hall in a poem dated 1849 , where he describes it was a ‘ haunt of ancient peace ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Gruson went upstairs where he said he was threatened by one of the gunmen . |
| 21 | Where it existed it was characteristic of states which , although they had long and proud cultural traditions , had suffered serious setbacks or for some reason lacked self-confidence . |
| 22 | What , they thought he was too good or he thought he was too good ? |
| 23 | Whenever I did succeed in preparing a family meal , I insisted that everyone eat whatever was placed on her/his plate . |
| 24 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 25 | It did n't seem too distressed by life in the aviary with the other birds , although I imagine it was all a bit of a come-down for this once proud and merciless hunter of the skies . |
| 26 | ‘ They are out of season and very expensive , but Alain bought them in Paris this morning , although I imagine it was one of his long-suffering secretaries who was dispatched to buy them . ’ |
| 27 | But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times . |
| 28 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 29 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 30 | He was our biggest danger in the end , although I thought it was going to be Tom 's four-ball partner Bert Yancey who might prove the biggest threat . |