Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late Professor Ragnar Nurkse used to tell his students at Cambridge in the 1950s , of whom I was one , how important it was that Third World countries should develop their agriculture without resorting to the internal combustion engine . |
| 2 | In the time office , I worked that till I I were I did about er seven or eight months in there , and from there I went on the screens . |
| 3 | But you remember how intense your feelings were for someone who was your whole life , and you 're afraid that your love for him is n't so much dead as lying doggo , ready to rise up and damage everything you hold dear . |
| 4 | Aye , we 've done all sorts of things , there was er I used to go to chapel as well I I we were we were compelled to go to chapel . |
| 5 | I I he was nothing without Mildred . |
| 6 | And she was going through and she knew them and er she was going into I it was her second year bio-chemistry exams on the bus and she 's got a bi a text book on bio-chemistry and she 's reading the introduction bit before you even get into proper bio-chemistry and Michael s look leant across and said , what on earth are you doing ? |
| 7 | But it was my it was my customers ' requirements . |
| 8 | I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock . |
| 9 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
| 10 | Like Hannele , nobody who was nobody had any doubts that Britain and her Empire would be victorious : only the grey men in their boiled shirts and wing collars , who strode the streets of Westminster in rain or shine with black hat and rolled umbrella , were afraid . |
| 11 | The live set would feature the TARDIS , so by careful aligning of two camera positions and angles the two pictures on the output monitor could be made exactly the same , with only the TARDIS prop showing which one was which . |
| 12 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 13 | He looked at the lights in the bedroom windows , and wondered which one was hers . |
| 14 | Which one was it ? |
| 15 | Which one was it ? ’ |
| 16 | Which one was it about er ? |
| 17 | Which one was it ? |
| 18 | Which one was it ? |
| 19 | Did you see that , which one was it ? |
| 20 | Which one was he then ? |
| 21 | Subject : Which one were you ! |
| 22 | Which one were you ? ? |
| 23 | Which one were you hoping to choose ? |
| 24 | Ah , so which one were you hoping he 'd gone for ? |
| 25 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 26 | The likes of Polanski , Nicholson and Hopper all talked freedom — even if it was at the movies — and that was music to the ears of those who followed the anti-war , hippie-inspired trend of throwing off inhibitions , of which there were plenty of public demonstrations when the beautiful people gathered , be it Los Angeles , New York , London or Paris . |
| 27 | He was impressed , too , by the way Laura dealt with disasters , of which there were plenty at that time . |
| 28 | No no one no one said a word about it seemed keen or do too keen on the Robin Hood line of which there were plenty . |
| 29 | Tilda stared at the brilliant golden-beaked bird , about which there was something frightening . |
| 30 | In the Canadian case Buzzanga the defendants were convicted of wilfully promoting hatred against the French-Canadian group of which they were themselves members . |