Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [pers pn] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd got two in and they was really first class . |
| 2 | His brother often slept in and it was just a bit more noticeable this morning . |
| 3 | As I said , I did me shoulder in and it was really bad and me mam got some dikes off me gran who had arthritis and I felt great . |
| 4 | Well I said , I was born in and I was also born in Terrace . |
| 5 | One night , there was one night here about er half nine I was really tired but , with them being out I was n't , you know , I like to go to bed when they come in and I was so tired when they come in when I got up |
| 6 | Two other police cars joined in and he was finally stopped . |
| 7 | She said to her in the week when she rung she wo n't ring until I thought it was like midnight last night she was getting in and she was n't gon na ring till today but it 'll be tomorrow she 'll ring her . |
| 8 | She come in , she was alright when she come in and she was just speaking as usual , she went up to bed |
| 9 | Oh yeah I walk down and she was just coming down here . |
| 10 | The bear apparently fled in terror , yelling and howling , but contemporary accounts tell a different story , where the bear in fact knocked Lambert down and he was so fat he could not get up ! |
| 11 | And even as he gave up , as he let himself lean back against the wall , he was holding on , knowing he had backed down and it was over , but doing it gradually so we would n't see the change come over him . |
| 12 | But they had I do n't know if you know it had been absolutely dilapidated , the hall , I mean it was absolutely run down and it was n't used . |
| 13 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
| 14 | ‘ There was no traffic for miles , but he looked right and left for about five minutes and then something did come along and he was there for ages . ’ |
| 15 | Many a time , I sat outside waiting for someone to come along but it was never bust while I was there . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think he was in danger of falling any further in but it was about five foot deep . ’ |
| 17 | Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair . |
| 18 | So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on . |
| 19 | This sale later fell through and it was not until the following August that Wyvis Hall was finally sold to a Mr and Mrs Langan for the much improved figure of £51,995 . |
| 20 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 21 | Well Molly she was the one that came through and she was n't happy . |
| 22 | A month later his down had grown through and he was n't shaking so much . |
| 23 | Later , when like a waking nightmare , the business was over and he was once again sitting in the cab , Mr Beecham leant towards him and said , ‘ If you will excuse us we will be returning straight to Newcastle , ’ and paused before adding , ‘ Sir Joseph , ’ which remark drew the young man 's attention to him . |
| 24 | She must n't let her out of her sight , not until Tommaso 's leave was over and he was safely back in Caserta . |
| 25 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 26 | Towards the end of the 16th century when the President 's Lodge of Queens ' College was built its timber framework was plastered over and it was not until 1911 that the plaster was removed to reveal the massive but somehow delicate oak members which make up the frame . |
| 27 | After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er |
| 28 | She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself . |
| 29 | And the peedie fairy was just delighted to start with but soon realized that there was something kind of fishy going on and it was n't a very happy place . |
| 30 | We had the grill on and it was still on and it went off turned it off turned back on again did n't go on . |