Example sentences of "[pron] was more [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Cos I was more or less going as she come in . |
2 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
3 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
4 | Now within the national settlements at that time , there was always provision left that if our members erm were in receipt of pay which was more than the national minimum time rate , then that would satisfy the terms of the agreement . |
5 | And my pictures were upside down but I could see the rings of Saturn with it , which was more than what Galileo saw first when he looked , he thought there was two stars at either side of Saturn . |
6 | It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now . |
7 | I do n't think they , I would have thought that everything was more or less |
8 | Wel and there was more than there is now like . |
9 | You know , there was more than enough really . |
10 | My gosh , my life , sort of died and I thought there was more than that |
11 | No there was more than that . |
12 | There was more but in laymen 's terms it was a breakthrough . |
13 | And , actually it was more than an hour and a half . |
14 | I remember as a young woman before I , even when I was courting , a young boys was there writing little notes behind the counter trying to make dates with me you know erm er it was , oh it was more than a shop . |
15 | It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out . |
16 | Er because it was more than a weeks wages . |
17 | and there was a lot of waste , but these new tables did bring that , it was something for the company it was more than anything , you know cos we were on the bonus system . |
18 | Oh I thought it was more than that . |
19 | I thought it was more than that . |
20 | Oh it was more than that I should think . |
21 | Oh I thought it was more than that . |
22 | It was more than shit it was a load of shit . |
23 | So er I remember it half a crown to the pound , but it was more before I remember that |
24 | It was more or less something along those lines was n't it |
25 | And oh Yeah , we went round from one house to the other and you A whole week of it it was more or less . |
26 | It was eighteen thousand I think it was more or less . |
27 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
28 | But there was still you know a substantial It was more or less the same case as we had before in terms of the traffic relief that each afforded and the economic rates of return . |
29 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
30 | I think I probably decided what it was more or less , but er he got quite stroppy |