Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Miss Jeanette told Teesside Crown Court : ‘ As a policeman came across Darren said ‘ If he asks where I was say I was with you . ’ ’
2 I was suspect they the same problem with France and Germany .
3 No I was trainee you you were teaching .
4 ‘ If I was Empress I would be a constitutional Empress only , ’ said Pakeezah , drawing herself up .
5 Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there .
6 They was wiv 'im in the office fer over an hour .
7 No , I was thinking it was shock you actually said it actually .
8 It was money I was never expecting .
9 Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ?
10 Er of course , it was rather dangerous work , really , because it was stuff we was dealing with .
11 Well it was it was charity you see .
12 ‘ Because Burun will not go — if it was reconnaissance I think he might , but it is not — and so I can not . ’
13 Then they were turning into Mahogany Drive and something lurched inside him , as if it was love he was meeting , not death .
14 It was love he felt — and not only for her : for the pathetic room , the faded carpet , the floor boards , the stove , everything .
15 It was love he was beginning to experience , and what a joke that was .
16 It was love I felt ; yes , when I have read your books I feel more loving , and it is no use being alive if one does n't feel that . ’
17 It was sex I was worrying about .
18 I mean , ‘ Cripes , dear , if it was anonymity you 'd wanted you should have gone into the family tailoring business , ’ I hear you say , with some justification .
19 My mum sa , and then it was dad me .
20 It was Beck you spoke to when you called ? ’
21 About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then .
22 on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its .
23 Well it was a kind of fur coat but it was rabbit I think , it was .
24 When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive .
25 Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted .
26 But when he came along to tell her it was dinnertime he persuaded her to come down .
27 I do n't think it was romance I thought he kept her in chocolates and cigarettes .
28 then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she
29 If it was murder we shall be informed in the Family 's good time .
30 They had dug up those bones at Wyvis Hall and had decided it was murder they were investigating .
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