Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What particularly concerned me was their feeling that Balbinder seemed to understand and respond better in Punjabi . |
| 2 | I had to pretend I was him ! |
| 3 | I mean I was what I 've mentioned it like to someone in my class . |
| 4 | ‘ How did you know I was there ? ’ |
| 5 | I pretended I was someone else because when I 'm vibing with someone about other people 's records , I can pull it off . |
| 6 | The author of these words clearly had his pen in one hand and his dick in the other , and had forgotten which was which . |
| 7 | She stared until it was hard to know which was herself — the disconsolate woman in the chill room or the other sorrowful face in the night outside . |
| 8 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 9 | ‘ To force acknowledgement , to let Phena know you were her niece . ’ |
| 10 | Wickham asked : ‘ How did he know you were there ? ’ |
| 11 | Sandy and Eddie at two in the morning , surveying the evening 's crowd and explaining who was who to a newcomer : ‘ You see that one in the white vest , that 's his affair in the denim . |
| 12 | ‘ D' you know who was there ? ’ |
| 13 | This was a warning to the adventurous Arab in the desert , if you did force-land and you suddenly found you were his prisoner , and in several dialects of Arabic . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean , they 'd know there was nothing worth stealing ? ’ said Alan . |
| 15 | Then the young assistant started giving me funny looks , as if there was something up and I should know there was something up . |
| 16 | I did n't even know there was one . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't know there was one , ’ said Seb honestly . |
| 18 | I did n't know there was one |
| 19 | I did n't know there was one . |
| 20 | Oh did n't know there was one there |
| 21 | Yesterday they called , I called them in the morning and they said is your er , you know at one at something , I said no , I do n't , I do n't really know , I did n't know there was one at one . |
| 22 | I did n't know there was one in ! |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't know there was anything in it , ’ said Edward . |
| 24 | No , what I mean is er the new one sort of thing , the new Cher , it 's in the top thirty , it was about number three a month about a month or so ago I did n't know there was anything else |
| 25 | Well I did n't know there was anything up here I was just , I just come up here |
| 26 | Yet these lonely , unhappy people needed to know there was somebody who loved them . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not hindsight when I say there was something cold and sinister about him . |
| 28 | I do n't mind dropping in and saying , hello , we we are getting to a size where , er I think it 's speci slightly impractical , I mean er I can see there was so might be useful to know there 's a new member of staff here , it 's either then say there was somebody wandering around , who are you and what are you doing here . |
| 29 | This is how one young abortion counselor expressed her conflict over ‘ letting in ’ the fetus : ‘ I just could n't kid myself any more and say there was nothing in the uterus , just a tiny speck . |
| 30 | But managers at the Fairmile say there was nothing more they could do . |