Example sentences of "was [subord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tug had forgotten what day it was until he heard the bells . |
| 2 | I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game . |
| 3 | I 'm going to tell you right away that , although I was n't a virgin when we married , I was until I left the train with Ludovico . |
| 4 | That was until I tried the Renault 19-Turbo DX . |
| 5 | Prior to that the only way that you could get sweets was if you had the necessary ration coupons . |
| 6 | That was because one got the feeling she was not with her husband . |
| 7 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 8 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 9 | Maybe it was because she had the advantage of the high ground and was looking down on me . |
| 10 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 11 | One involved the successful launch of its cookery book , Cooking to Please , and the other was because it won the contract to provide in-house catering to the main council sites for second time . |
| 12 | Walter Robins told him it was because he antagonised the fasties by doffing his cap after evading a bouncer ( Randall used to infuriate Lillee in this way ) ; Barrington , though , was only being his naturally jolly self . |
| 13 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |
| 14 | In Laverty [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 432 ( CA ) the reason why the victim bought a stolen car was because he thought the accused was authorised to sell it , not in reliance on the fact that it did not have its original number-plates . |
| 15 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 16 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
| 17 | It was because he liked the idea of death , because he wanted to talk about it . |
| 18 | But if I overstepped the mark it was because you made the running . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The reason they sacked me was because I joined the union and I was the shop steward . ’ |
| 20 | From the first day they completely opted out , wandering around saying how beautiful it was while we dug the vegetable garden . |
| 21 | It was after he broke the engagement that the real craziness started . |
| 22 | The whole er test of whether this was or was not a successful proposal , was whether you marry the environment and the economy , and sadly it has n't been married , and sadly the Treasury has yet again won . |
| 23 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 24 | That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank , which Health and Safety thought could drown a child . |
| 25 | and that was before we bought the petrol this morning . |
| 26 | That was before they found the patches of damp on their own kitchen and bathroom ceilings , which , when touched with a finger , smelled unmistakably of cat-piss . |
| 27 | That was before he saw the apple . |
| 28 | ‘ I know I did , but that was before I knew the labels were typed on Dick Tavett 's typewriter and that the bags matched those in the Post 's stationery stockroom . ’ |
| 29 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 30 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |