Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointment followed , the lurid projector of mental pictures shut down and I was left feeling I ought to have known better . |
| 2 | However , to get him to the point where he might be weaned from the ventilator , one must allow him to sleep and get stronger , so if it was that kind of day or that kind of period , he might have more sedation than other times . |
| 3 | Fifty two litres roughly so if it was one voucher for fifteen that 's three in n it ? |
| 4 | you go and have a look at that one in the bathroom any way he looked at that mark , so if it was any thing |
| 5 | The chef mashed a lump of raw gristle on his stove , and kept it down until it was half charcoal . |
| 6 | I should have been allowed in if I was five minutes late . |
| 7 | I mean he liked his job in here right enough but it was more money and better conditions in the glaziers so |
| 8 | perhaps because it was some kind of miracle elixir . |
| 9 | Henry wondered if his chum , the great young cellist , had taken untimely to bed because he was trying to keep out of Henry 's marriage , or perhaps because he was nursing loneliness . |
| 10 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 11 | Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old . |
| 12 | And I looked out the window , I could n't see anybody next thing a car moved off so whether it was same crowd I do n't |
| 13 | I was an errand boy , a boot black , a bellhop , a messenger boy — all before I was nine years old ! |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher pledged that the relief would remain for as long as she was Prime Minister and the opposition parties appear unwilling to commit themselves to abolishing it . |
| 15 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 16 | Yes , I think it 's most probably one of the most important goals I 've ever scored in my life , especially when it was last minute , now because we soaked a lot of pressure up and as I say , it 's the best time to score . |
| 17 | I came in when he was next door , fetching you . ’ |
| 18 | He is a lot richer tonight than he was this morning . |
| 19 | Not that it was young Mr Gotobed 's fault , his father was alive then , and in charge of the mine , but Mr Evans says all that family was tarred with the same brush , only thinking of profits . |
| 20 | Not that it was any skin off my nose one way or the other . |
| 21 | Not that it was any sort of crackdown on muggers or pickpockets , but in the week before the Season of Goodwill , the Marks and Spencer store on Orchard Street gets more bomb threats than the average American Embassy east of Cyprus . |
| 22 | Not that he was much trouble , and he always gave me what money he could . ’ |
| 23 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 24 | Not until he was several minutes within the house did Moran leave the plantation . |
| 25 | I came through and it was blue lights from wall to wall … |
| 26 | She had allowed him to come too close , to penetrate her defences far too easily as it was this evening . |
| 27 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 28 | And we found it eventually and it was beautiful day too . |
| 29 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 30 | But he said : ‘ I never wrote myself off and it was amusing reading some of the stuff that was churned out . |