Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , anyway , I do n't think that was their house . |
| 2 | And with a flash of insight Delaney realised that was what it was — or had been : the headgear of one of the deep sea diving suits . |
| 3 | ‘ And after he left my room with that bleak look on his face , ’ she concluded , ‘ I realised that was it . |
| 4 | ‘ Meaning that I let you kiss me once I realised that was your intention , because I too thought that it would serve a purpose and stop Terry Lewis making any more waves . |
| 5 | Hot Shots , we went to see that was it . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear Mr Martins , I beg you to reconsider , to make no hasty decision , ’ came the headmaster 's voice , raised to a sort of wail that was anything but confidence-creating . |
| 7 | About the only thing he got right was what he called the magistrate , he called her a madam , because when you 're appearing before a stipendiary magistrate , one magistrate on their own , it 's sir or madam . |
| 8 | I mean that was what , twenty one I was , so , thirteen years ago |
| 9 | I mean that was they dimmed the lights so that they 're not all erm silvery grey at one stage . |
| 10 | Owen realized that was what they had come for . |
| 11 | ‘ The next time I spoke to her she realised this was her golden opportunity to have her say , to get her retaliation in . |
| 12 | And I learned after a few weeks that how he got this was There was no weather forecast as we know them now you know on the television . |
| 13 | ‘ I just had to accept that was him . |
| 14 | I did n't know that was his wife , erm . |
| 15 | Say that was I can |
| 16 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 17 | It transpired this was his permanent secretary , Sir Bruce Fraser , one of the greatest Treasury mandarins of the day Vivian had acted without reference to his secretary of state , the Head of the Home Civil service , or the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | Well , is , is he saying that these are the , these are the things that our religion needs in order to , to be a strong religion , I mean it , she said you know something that I found interesting was what Maska Reece has said about erm the ability of the minority to , to sort of overcome repression |
| 19 | ‘ How did you know this was my hut ? |
| 20 | So you were considered daring were you ? |
| 21 | My name is as you know and company that found these was which was my Uncle and , well erm , about Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev to lead a Russian political book and I could which was the name of the company today . |
| 22 | If you imagine that was their toes would all go up like that |
| 23 | At least she assumed that was who they were as they walked with Leo down the lane towards her ; she did n't wait to be introduced . |
| 24 | According to Walter Map this was his mother 's teaching : he should keep aspirants waiting in hope , she said , deliberately spinning out their affairs , for an unruly hawk , if meat is held out to it and then snatched away or hid , will become keener and more inclined to be attentive and obedient . |
| 25 | Many of these interactions could be made automatic were it not for the basic need for a human presence for the social/ economic reasons mentioned above and because the human operator has to act as the ultimate back-stop when things go badly wrong . |
| 26 | Lalage Lawless was her name . |
| 27 | The curious nature of the Bar would matter less were it not for the fact that it supplies the vast majority of judges . |
| 28 | In those early days what seemed newsworthy was what was called the movie ‘ fever ’ . |
| 29 | Now she could feel the solid muscle of her daughter 's arms and she wanted to lean against her and draw comfort and strength ; but she pulled away and looked at Phoebe with that straight , clear , appraising look that was her hallmark . |
| 30 | I suspect that were I to appear of a sudden in royal regalia , crown , sceptre and all , it would be a different story ! ’ |