Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I were shop steward in the , in the building trade , I was a shop steward in the building trade . |
| 2 | and his were fivepence ha'penny |
| 3 | At the time of this incident I was patrol inspector at . |
| 4 | I was night work , till I retired . |
| 5 | I was night relief nurse in Hope , a women 's acute medical ward , and tonight was one of the rare nights when all three Hope night nurses were on together . |
| 6 | Anyway that 's what that was the time when I was sea sick , when we come across the channel . |
| 7 | When I was Defence Secretary and , to my shame , trying to sell tanks to King Idris in Libya , I was pretty sure that he 'd be overthrown in an army coup , and I tried to identify the colonel who was likely to be the leader of the coup . |
| 8 | My daughter told me that I was chrome yellow , and a glance in the mirror proved her right . |
| 9 | ‘ I was art director of Rolling Stone for about two minutes ’ , says Marchbank . |
| 10 | ‘ I was spending money creatively ; I made a contribution to the family restaurant market , which is still in place , and which enabled people to have a very good value meal in enjoyable surroundings , for less money . |
| 11 | I found that I was spending money every day . |
| 12 | ( I was Deputy Chief Inspector at the time and privy to the discussions and proposals relating to the investigation . ) |
| 13 | I was part way across a basin between two outcrops of rock . |
| 14 | So I was shop steward for there , for one year and a half and er eventually because of the row between the workers , myself and er the management , er although we , we obtained a lot of facilities for the workers , a lot of facilities . |
| 15 | And then we used to play games with him and we were going to invent a game that did n't exist because whatever you said , Mr Brynner always said , ‘ Well , as a matter of fact I was world champion pistol shot , ’ or ‘ I 'm the world champion ’ of whatever it was you mentioned . |
| 16 | ‘ I was world number one and I did n't have a clue about life . ’ |
| 17 | He and I had met in Birmingham , Alabama , while he was news director of WBRC-TV and I was news director of WSGN radio . |
| 18 | As for my room , well , if I was Jimmy Page I would definitely say ‘ Too rococo ’ . |
| 19 | Within weeks , I was features editor , had met Bon Jovi , grown my shifty Morrissey quiff out and got on the Music For Nations mailing list forever . |
| 20 | I was chain smoking again . |
| 21 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 22 | I mean for years when I was young I was jet black and that was lovely . |
| 23 | You see , my day rate , then , of course I was piece work , but my day rate then would be er er two pound twelve and six pence . |
| 24 | took off and I was circle ground , it was quite a windy day then this stood there with me , had no control over the thing , like ! |
| 25 | I would like help from those who have taken on responsibility to inform groups of the changes and want to find out where they found materials which were user friendly . |
| 26 | About 40 cars were required , most of which were E Class cars from Hammersmith depôt at the other end of the route . |
| 27 | Exercise 8–4 How would the above analysis change if the government issued bonds which were tax exempt' ? |
| 28 | The types which were Boston Fighter Bombers and Harvard Trainers , both were American planes . |
| 29 | It 's not hard to identify some voluntary organisations which were shoe string operations a few years ago but are now lumbering their employees in the hundreds . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'eard 'e was orf work wiv 'is back . ’ |