Example sentences of "[det] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 2 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 3 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 4 | But after that I was always seeing her , all over the place . |
| 5 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 6 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 7 | At this I was more frightened than ever . |
| 8 | In this she was perfectly correct . |
| 9 | When you come out of this you was absolutely drunk ! |
| 10 | At another she was deeply resentful . |
| 11 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 12 | By the time I realized this we were less than twenty yards apart . |
| 13 | We were told that the Tia Juana bullfights were ‘ not of the best ’ and this we were quite willing to believe . |
| 14 | Despite this we were quite pleased that the exercise had showed the system worked . |
| 15 | We had the boats which was the main thing , and for this we were truly grateful to Mr Woolf . |
| 16 | Of course in doing this we were inadvertently upwind of the rabbits then out to feed , and numbers would head for the main wood . |
| 17 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 18 | I had no choice : of this they were thankfully ignorant . |
| 19 | In this they were simply reflecting the typical disinterest of historians . |
| 20 | Although neither was an art movement in any conventional sense , they were both launched as aesthetic revolutions which were scheduled as critiques of everyday life ; and in this they were both surprisingly successful . |
| 21 | In this they were probably supported by the majority of their parishioners , insofar as the latter cared very much at all . |
| 22 | For this they were peculiarly well suited by reason of their durability , portability , uniformity and ease of recognition ; Cowries probably came into use as currency as early as the Shang dynasty . |
| 23 | Despite this they were very fond of each other . |
| 24 | When the Moors saw this they were greatly amazed ; and they harnessed themselves in Great haste , and came out of their tents . |
| 25 | Well she had some they were like right slim at end and then went like that , and she got the fat bit and went crrrk and it hurts like mad . |
| 26 | As one enthusiast to another they were soon deep in discussion until the children began to get restless . |
| 27 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 28 | In this it was perhaps too successful , for it provoked so much hostility from the car lobby that reprinting of the book ceased some two years after it was first published . |
| 29 | From this it was only a step to the French and English abbreviation ‘ jade ’ . |
| 30 | From this it was only a short step to total involvement in folk culture , and his ability to play the gipsy violin led him to join the Gyorgyos Bokreta group , which at that time offered a programme of traditional songs and dances from the Bata region . |