Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only enjoyable memory that I have is that of the instructor , a tall man with dark hair and a quiet nature vault a large gate in one bound and coming sprinting towards me to see what was the matter . |
| 2 | I asked what was the problem and they told me not to bother my pretty head with scum . |
| 3 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 4 | Why , I mean what was the problem with them ? |
| 5 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 6 | Well I mean it was a lot |
| 7 | But I mean it was a hell of a way to work at the same time . |
| 8 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 9 | Such a thin strange quavering noise , and such a tense awkward atmosphere had built up ; I mean it was the music on top of everything else . |
| 10 | The , the odd twenty or thirty times , you have Mickey , I mean it was the success , is , is it likely to happen again next year ? |
| 11 | But I mean it was the story to run that while sh the Queen was with her it was a it was not war erm I mean a , a , a whole part of story like |
| 12 | I , I mean I was a bit disappointed yesterday cos it was a good do |
| 13 | Erm if you just liken it , I mean I was a beat officer here for eight years and the sorts of things that you 'd come on duty erm to see , are you may , you might get the nutty woman , who who er , you reoccur and you have to go and see her and you ge , erm , but all the shift members can then pass that to the beat officer . |
| 14 | mm , you seemed to of , I mean you were a bit disappointed there were less , not so many visually impaired people were there , but they , they were sort of casting the net with council |
| 15 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 16 | We did n't take a lot I mean she was a history teacher so now you know why I did n't learn a lot of history cos all we did was giggle . |
| 17 | Because sh I mean she was a eye witness and she picked him out . |
| 18 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 19 | And er at that stage we tried the fire hydrants but I mean there was no water in the pumps the electric pumps there was no ele electric power 'cos the elec electric er generator was blown to bits , well they were n't working anyway . |
| 20 | I mean there was no ink squash . |
| 21 | Yeah but they basically just do n't want to lose out either way , I mean there was no reason for them to join originally but when events happen and they see the tide turning almost , you know get with the bandwagon , I mean they , they do n't want now to be seen as the minority and the ones under threat , so you go with the er majority , with the , the stronger force |
| 22 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |
| 23 | They 're quite , they 're quite common actually , I mean there was a couple up at Black Wood |
| 24 | I mean there was a lot of concrete in it . |
| 25 | Erm there was a , I mean there was a lot of friction , I mean , I mean I 'm really lucky to have the strength of a friendship that I did because you know , if , I would n't have got , you know where I am , sort of without it , I think . |
| 26 | I was wondering I mean there may possibly be differences between I mean there was the format that speech generate of the H P and the format that the Sun would use . |
| 27 | Well I mean there was an incidence where erm maybe a guy who did n't clean himself very often they would er a whole group of guys would find it funny to take him into the toilet erm fill a bath up with half with water , put bleach in it erm excrete in it , urinate in it and put him in hit , hit him with ba erm brushes , all kinds of stuff like that . |
| 28 | I , I mean there were a lot of questions like you know does |
| 29 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 30 | I mean there were a lot of county councillors huffing and puffing . |