Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [was/were] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was grey and , and mustard , it sounds revolting but we , we were a bit , I suppose it was the time we had a purple carpet , we had an orange wall , do you remember that living room ? |
| 2 | I knew there was no time to lose and no point in hesitating — I was going to explode soon — so I put my head down and broke free from Jamie and the girl , running off down the street . |
| 3 | Right , O K , I understood it was the time factor that was , right . |
| 4 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 5 | We thought it was the time when we could make a gesture in return . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We admit there was a time when the North-East service was among the worst in the country in terms of reliability but we have had a massive turnaround of fortune . ’ |