Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 2 | Pity it was actually the Norwegians . |
| 3 | Detectives say it was probably the shock that killed her . |
| 4 | Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War . |
| 5 | All right , I know it was hardly the All-England championships ; I know it was only the badminton club doubles competition . |
| 6 | I mean it was just the back though . |
| 7 | And I did and to be quite honest , I mean it was n't the money really when you think about it because at end of day , forty six pound he were spending in pub anyway . |
| 8 | You mean it was n't the rain — you did n't fly back because of me ? |
| 9 | ‘ You think it was not the Maillotins who attacked the messengers ? ’ |
| 10 | I , I think it was largely the way most girls were treated . |
| 11 | I think it was just the thought that if one shift did n't turn up or if people stopped turning up , then others would n't turn up and it 'd just escalate until everyone was just sitting at home in front of the fire and the quarries would function as normal , and the fact , well certainly with me , I thought well we have to make an appearance to show people that we are still on strike and keep , you know everyone who drives past us will be saying , ah hello what 's up with them ? |
| 12 | I think it was just the thought that she 'd been on it you know , and a nice bit of heat and everything , relaxing . |
| 13 | He 'd noticed a slight waning in the receipts on Sex of One … though I think it was just the power crisis and the railways . |
| 14 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 15 | Er , I liked the spooling but some I just do n't know , some of the girls get kind of one one thing by the other I can object to , I think it was actually the atmosphere of the , the girls that worked in the department that I |
| 16 | And it was really er I think it was really the pantomimes that I started singing |