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
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