Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 2 | The vote against him was taken after the Secretary of the Society explained that ‘ we have constituted ourselves as it were the guardians of their [ women 's ] interests and in many cases … the custodians of their honour … |
| 3 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 4 | In this very pub , one night , and told everyone that he was the Wimbledon poisoner . |
| 5 | It seems to me that it was the high-water mark of collective Cabinet government [ of ] the traditional type in recent times . |
| 6 | One woman told me that it was the day she was able to swim the width of the local pool after years of being afraid . |
| 7 | The doctor told me that it was the first time she had made an advance to anybody . |
| 8 | But he urged on me that it was the Prime Minister 's particular wish that I should do anything I could to prevent its publication . |
| 9 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 10 | Dick , thank you for those kind words , er , specially about er my book , and I think I am considering appointing you as my agent er , you also said er that I 'd dr drawn the short straw indeed you er whispered to me that I was the sacrificial lamb this morning well we 'll see about that but I do know that I have the great honour to be invited to speak to congress this morning on behalf of the G M B parliamentary group . |
| 11 | ‘ It was not Mrs Greville 's word , ’ said Sally-Anne , goaded unwisely into further indiscretion , still trying to break free , ‘ it was your handwriting — the same that told me that I was the light of your life and that you loved me dearly . ’ |
| 12 | Those who remained at work were likely to find themselves increasingly isolated : Miss Brechin told me that she was the very last woman to work in Morrison & Gibb . |
| 13 | The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town . |
| 14 | Alarmed at this sight , and with the smell , which came principally from the cerecloth , they ordered the ground to be thrown in immediately without judiciously closing up the cerecloth and lead , which covered the face : only observing enough of the inscription to convince them that it was the body of Queen Katherine . |
| 15 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 16 | He had persuaded himself that he was the spiritual heir to Cyrus and he too , would extend and advance the Persian empire . |
| 17 | When he knew for certain that a particular shooting or explosion was due to the very cell that he controlled , he consoled himself that it was the will of Allah . |
| 18 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 19 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 20 | She was always kind to me and she was the only neighbour Mum could really trust . |
| 21 | ‘ Your nephew asked me if I was the one you were going to marry , ’ she blurted out as she averted her eyes from the probing intentness of his . |
| 22 | There are two factors to worry them and one was the quality of crosses at Ibrox . |
| 23 | At first I thought they were muggers , but then there were only two of them and it was the middle of the street . |
| 24 | But erm I think I had lots of people praying for me back here because I did n't have any problem with them and I was the only one who did n't . |
| 25 | And er and then there was another voice voice called another film called , The er The Second Black Pearl , or some and them and there was the Dagger and |
| 26 | Cos I need some friends around just to like protect me cos I was the only girl last week and I just had no one to refer to . |
| 27 | But even when they were famous names like those , Madame used to recite or whisper them like they were the names of lovers or at least the dear departed , girlfriends , people she had actually met . |
| 28 | Many suitable organs are being lost to avoid the possibility of difficulties at trial — that is , when and why did a patient die ; who or what was the cause ? |
| 29 | Because I said to yo , I said to you that it was the same in Russia ! |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't go with you if you were the last man on earth . ’ |