Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 2 | Jimmy was silent for a moment , then he said , ‘ What sort of thing did you mean when you asked if I was suffering any after-effects ? ’ |
| 3 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
| 4 | ‘ It may not be as comfortable as an ordinary saloon , ’ Ward said on a note of apology , ‘ but buggered if Ah was takin' any chances in a country like this . ’ |
| 5 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 6 | He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it . |
| 7 | If we were to prioritize these needs on a one to seven basis , one being the most important and seven the least , which would be the number one priority ? |
| 8 | It strikes me if we were to use these cards I forget what the wording is on Patterns , but er if we , dear supermarket manager , we would like you |
| 9 | If we were to add those provisions to the Bill , I fear that we might not fall within the long title of the Bill . |
| 10 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 11 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 12 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |
| 13 | She said the Church could not afford to refuse to ordain women if it was to win more supporters . |
| 14 | Anthony Hope 's detachment meant that his story could be free from contemporary political overtones : if he was expressing any apprehensions about the state of Europe , they were not visible in his books as they are in Erskine Childers 's thriller , The Riddle of the Sands , or in Buchan 's ‘ Ruritanian ’ novels . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he were to convert all loans under the social fund to grants , as has been promised by the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , the cost would be about £130 million and would greatly prejudice the operation of the social fund as it now works ? |
| 16 | While she was identifying these predators in the encyclopedia , Ruby became noticeably paler and agitated . |
| 17 | The day that made the appointment to see and Co , Nick after coming out of that meeting with Nick , we called in at the office , myself and my wife , and whilst I was tidying some things up because I 'd got the remainder of the afternoon off , Charles ' wife said to my wife , my wife actually broke down in tears , and she says , What 's up ? |
| 18 | I 'd be concerned as to whether I was wearing more layers of clothing than the other women , and whether anyone had noticed . |
| 19 | Her mouth opened and closed , but Clive could not tell whether she was making any noises . |
| 20 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 21 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 22 | When you were in , when you were discussing these things in the l lodge meeting erm d d d did the younger men sort of indicate how they felt towards the picket ? |
| 23 | Well for slings , getting bags out of the hold see the whole job was so interesting , when you were doing these jobs that was interesting all the time . |
| 24 | When we were discussing these issues in our Working Group the teachers often reminded me that we were not preparing a thesis for university dons . |
| 25 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 26 | And erm when we were doing these cards Mrs , that 's Scott 's old teacher , she 's very nice , very modern |
| 27 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |
| 28 | They were so different from the lively Irish nuns , who , when they were passing some workmen unloading crates of beer into a pavement hatch in Nassau Street , Dublin , burst out laughing when the jovial brewery workers called out to them : ‘ Now , girls , steady up ! ’ |
| 29 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 30 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |