Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 2 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
| 3 | Nearly ten years ago , in CD 's infancy , I was writing that most CD players sound like poor quality amplifiers , not least because they contain poor quality amplifier circuits , and little seems to have changed in the interim . |
| 4 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 5 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 6 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 8 | I did not receive a thank you from the owner of these cards nor from the Midland Bank , yet I was told that common practice in Britain is to reward the finder . |
| 9 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 10 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 11 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 12 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 13 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 14 | I wonder I was wondering whether some people were having abortion because they perhaps already had too many children ? |
| 15 | I was this this contradicts now , I was wondering whether more areas became accessible between seventeen hundred and eighteen fifty for some reason or other , therefore they could you know er enrol more people , and count more people . |
| 16 | I am hoping to compile a short book of poems on dogs — I was wondering if any readers might like to send me any ? |
| 17 | Among puppies seeking homes are six which were given as festive presents but rescued by the RSPCA when the owners could not cope . |
| 18 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 19 | The Public Record Office has about 9,000 Nonconformist registers dating from 1775 , which were deposited when civil registration began ; these are on the Mormons ' International Genealogical Index microfiche , and of course other Nonconformist records have been deposited in local record offices . |
| 20 | One item on lease is a new in-house laundry which was acquired when high bedroom occupancy was anticipate and its was though that the hire cost of linen would be more expensive . |
| 21 | However , this last figure includes women who were induced or given oxytocin to speed up contractions . |
| 22 | But if you went over the hill , after school time , then you were in for a fairly rough time the other end , you were challenged and all sorts of things . |
| 23 | After a pause , she said , ‘ And you were hoping that one day she 'd give up seeing men altogether and have a steady relationship with you ? ’ |
| 24 | There are many mementoes of her life in the collection — everywhere she went she was feted and given souvenirs of her visits to distant parts of the world . |
| 25 | Cos I was talking to Lilian , she was thinking that each year she 'd be given an update it should be a five year plan . |
| 26 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 27 | ‘ One dress was called ‘ Dying Embers ’ after a lady at a fancy dress party who 'd claimed she was dressed as dying embers — and if someone did n't poke her soon she was going home ! |
| 28 | She was elected as Tory leader in 1975 as the voice of petit bourgeois protest in the constituencies , as against grandees like Whitelaw , Carrington , or Pym . |
| 29 | And sh they she was given erm some sort of oh something to put her to sleep or whatever gas and I know sh she seemed to know what she was doing but this lady that was there with her she passed out with the smell of gas in the room so she was n't much help . |
| 30 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |