Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How do you know he was murdered that night ? ’ asked Blanche . |
| 2 | When the Conwy tunnel was built we were told that money would then be available , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 4 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 5 | yeah yeah well I know she was getting that way towards Christmas . |
| 6 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 7 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 8 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 9 | They both rejected the practice which had grown up since the decision of Slade J. in In re Castle New Homes Ltd. [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1075 , whereby if the liquidator had sued or decided to sue he was refused that order ; if he had not done so but was seeking information to enable him to sue he was granted an order . |
| 10 | Mrs Abigail drove the blue WRVS van , Miss Poraway sat beside her with a list of the names and addresses they were to visit that morning , the diabetics marked with a ‘ D ’ , as were the corresponding dinners in the metal hot-boxes . |
| 11 | In the whole , as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate . |
| 12 | Erm but then I think we need er I I was hoping we were going that step further |
| 13 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |