Example sentences of "was [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the occasional passenger , the main traffic was milk chums en route to the dairy and dye wagons from Preston . |
| 2 | 'E was drinkin' pints o' porter , ’ he informed Nellie . |
| 3 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 4 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 5 | And the one thing that myself and my friends all absolutely hated was guitar solos ! |
| 6 | During the later part of my career , I was University Estates Officer to the new University of York from the university 's inception in ninety sixty three until my retirement . |
| 7 | It was n't musicians making music , it was computer operators . |
| 8 | So hearing there was computer classes here , he started coming and he did n't like it and he stopped . |
| 9 | Needless to say there was plenty tricks played on each other and once when the summer was finished , Jimmy could n't get his trunk to move . |
| 10 | and it was money prizes but they took , they were looking for things to take marks off cos all the other schools doing it were state schools |
| 11 | In Rosyth , eight miles away , the game was called bebs and in Kirkcaldy , another 15 miles on , the game was poldie beds . |
| 12 | The rest , 52 per cent , was income councils raised themselves from the property tax or rates . |
| 13 | A major development encouraging trade between the advanced countries was tariff cuts . |
| 14 | just laid off when There was keel squads and |
| 15 | retired from , where he was export services manager , in May 1982 after completing 43½ years of loyal and valuable service to the Company . |
| 16 | and erm it was Blood Brothers . |
| 17 | ‘ At Gateway we had a major concern over environmental issues and one of the areas of concern was exhaust emissions . |
| 18 | Some little cars there was Range Rovers |
| 19 | It was winter sports , for heaven 's sake , not an in-depth seminar on personal relationships ! |
| 20 | By this time the most important factor was agglomeration diseconomies . |
| 21 | Oh yes any amount any amount of pots and pans and laces for your boots and , what we call pirins that was cotton reels . |
| 22 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 23 | Mummy , there was shopping bags and bags and things upset on the floor . |
| 24 | and that was pillow covers , well shams |
| 25 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |
| 26 | As British companies began to feel the pinch , it was ad campaigns which felt the finance director 's scalpel first ( the Saatchi-owned , media-buying organisation , Zenith , which bulk-buys TV slots predicts a real-term fall of 3.5% in revenues over the next year ) . |
| 27 | I remember seeing his ball disappear into what I thought was sand dunes left , but he 'd hit a woman on the head and nearly killed her , and his ball had flown back 60 or 70 yards into the fairway . |
| 28 | The following Saturday she agreed , at least , to go with him but then all she did was pick holes : ‘ Carpet 's frayed , ’ she said , after inspecting an apparently immaculate place in Muswell Hill ; ‘ Too far from the shops , ’ of a modern luxury development on the prestigious fringes of Hampstead Heath ; and of the one he 'd had real hopes for , a newly-converted maisonette over towards Crouch End — ‘ original features all been taken out . |
| 29 | so if you do it say , if , if it was exchange contracts today |
| 30 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |