Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , Corbett , you forget I was once a soldier . ’ |
| 2 | The fact that the firms allowed him to use the money for his own purposes and replace it was merely an indulgence . |
| 3 | Somebody could have murdered Everett , of course — in the circumstances , nothing simpler — but I expect it was just an accident , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | I do n't agree with people who say it was just a leadership personality cult effort . |
| 5 | Detectives say it was probably the shock that killed her . |
| 6 | So and smashed all the windows and everything in it erm so what 's that and as I say it was only a scrap van er and now he 'd bought the little chapel on the corner . |
| 7 | They say it was only a part of it , you know , because we only had half an hour , did n't we , there and then |
| 8 | To rugby now and on saturday Gloucester enjoyed their biggest and best win of the season … they beat Bristol thirty … eight eleven at Kinghsolm … shame it was only a club match |
| 9 | Like I was just a shadow , or a dog he does n't have to talk to . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I know it was only a reaction to shock but it was hardly admirable . |
| 12 | All right , I know it was hardly the All-England championships ; I know it was only the badminton club doubles competition . |
| 13 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 14 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |
| 15 | I mean it was just the back though . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean it was merely a study of kinship , ’ he added , seeing before him now the outraged faces of his colleagues at his letting the side down by describing such work as ‘ nothing much , really ’ . |
| 17 | in Australia , you know , I mean it was really a competition |
| 18 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 19 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 20 | I think she was just a bit hot . |
| 21 | I , I think it was largely the way most girls were treated . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it was just a build-up of ongoing tension between them , ’ Gina admitted unhappily . |
| 23 | I do n't , I think it was just a flash in the pan . |
| 24 | I think it was just a bug and I think it was caused by |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | I think it was just the thought that she 'd been on it you know , and a nice bit of heat and everything , relaxing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Er erm I think , I mean they all eat most of them eat the ham , there were a few that sent it back I think it was probably a bit much for them . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it was probably a score-draw between Robert and myself . |
| 30 | I think it was probably a ring , that sort of like went on for about a minute or so , |