Example sentences of "[pron] was [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was but teasing — I meant no harm . |
| 2 | And I 'd be aggressive and loud , but not aggressive towards him , but be loud and strolling up and down , making out I was a damn sight worse off than I was and all that . |
| 3 | What I was if any other matter comes into light before it comes in we do n't do anything about it and that 's why I would oppose that because of this because one it 's not necessary to move something that we would look at it and sit back and after the inspector reports . |
| 4 | Earlier we described a paradox which was that each user or group of users has a different need for information and the way that is presented to him . |
| 5 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 6 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 7 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 8 | She must have impressed Green for he gave eye-witness accounts of the so-called Sally of Buttermere and his various meetings with her in 1791 when she was but 14 , again in 1792,1794 , and in 1798 when he felt an irresistible wish to revisit Buttermere . |
| 9 | — She was but fifteen : Her mamma was confused — with a little chagrin , Says , ‘ Where 's your attention , child ? |
| 10 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 11 | We evaluated the effect of the 1976 legislation on the issue of the anonymity of the rape survivor ; on the basis of press reporting in 1978 , we found that she was now most unlikely to be named , but identifying detail was still published . |
| 12 | Whether she had seen those particular swifts Creggan did not know , for she was as usual high at the back of her cage . |
| 13 | And I saw your mother and I was going on saying all your virtues and how she 's been a good girl , how does that , how er , how erm self discipline she was and all this is on the tape |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't like sharing my men , ’ she said , intending to sound far more experienced than she was and succeeding . |
| 15 | Newly wed she was and pretty as a picture . ’ |
| 16 | " Who was that that let me in ? " said Clara , following Clelia meekly up the staircase , and up and up , to the second floor . |
| 17 | One was that some members of the public were unaware that they need not pay and gave in to the pressure of successive threatening letters . |
| 18 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 19 | Say , that one 's Well if that one was if that one was U that would be D U or if this one was V , that would be D V and |
| 20 | There were lots of reasons but obviously the main one was because some staff joined the scheme , others did n't . |
| 21 | Before the clampdown , I used to be able to score round here , there was that many places that you can score really . |
| 22 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 23 | Its leading edges were free to articulate , the central keel was retained simply because short of cutting it away , there was no choice , and there was but one forward cross-spar . |
| 24 | There was but one saviour for Europe , in Joyce 's view , and he made no secret that Mosley was not the man . |
| 25 | 1985:21 ) from concepts of structural relativism ( which took the place of the idea that there was but one right model of organization , on the basis of a firm hierarchical structure ) through structures of which some were mechanistic and others organic and into the realm of " contingency " models ( structures of management which alter according to the issues with which they have to deal ) . |
| 26 | No , since there was but one way in , by that way he must go . |
| 27 | No no no I was saying that there was but that had been put in quite recently . |
| 28 | The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable . |
| 29 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 30 | It was than proposed we should have a vote about a vote . ’ |