Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these . |
| 2 | Yes yes I was I had a month 's terminal leave er I 'd er I 'd heard that there was a job going , er phoned them up on the on the Monday , had an interview Tuesday , started the Friday . |
| 3 | Yeah I was I had a shower , well , perhaps the water 's been turned down a bit . |
| 4 | So I have , for the most part , named neither although wherever I was I sought a Black or Asian presence . |
| 5 | I must admit I 've never I did n't have any surprise that I was I wanted a a deposit cheque . |
| 6 | Snip , the mare , was n't as friendly or cooperative as Dick , and used to be very awkward when I was I sweeping the hay with her . |
| 7 | Young as I was it made a very big impression . |
| 8 | The bit of marshy ground beyond the playing fields was vole country , which was what attracted the kestrels . |
| 9 | While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance . |
| 10 | So anyway have a look at page fifty six cos I promised you yesterday that I would take you through the verb if you were you know the things you would want to know about . |
| 11 | She 's just like a week ago she was she did the manager 's job and , she drops she brings Joshua down here for about quarter to nine , then she goes back up to Stop Hill with the girls |
| 12 | ‘ Who was she having the affair with ? ’ |
| 13 | More than that , Ben , I think the world would lose something were you to neglect the gifts you have . ’ |
| 14 | Low and poor as we were we knew the value of brotherhood . |
| 15 | There was nothing to cause an echo in the car , already full of engine and wind noise , so it was probably only in their minds that her voice seemed to fade in throbbing waves , as across a vast canyon . |
| 16 | Here , there was nothing to disturb the silence but birdsong . |
| 17 | Yet there was nothing to disturb the peace of the morning except the noise of their own engine . |
| 18 | Mrs McBride took no pride in it because there was nothing to take a pride in . |
| 19 | There was nothing to stop the guy carrying out his threat to put the husband wise about Laura 's past . |
| 20 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 21 | Det Ch Insp Roy Lambert said there was nothing to connect the two men with the car . |
| 22 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 23 | There was nothing to distract the duchess from the inescapable fact that one 's stomach and hips had acquired that unfortunate texture halfway between a satsuma and a helping of lumpy school custard . |
| 24 | Apart from that there was nothing to show a suspect occupancy but two crushed cardboard cases in one corner . |
| 25 | In 1982 , he sacked on the spot several high-ranking officials for failing to maintain an adequate food supply to the main market in Bucharest — as if it was their fault that there was nothing to show the General-Secretary when he put in a surprise inspection visit . |
| 26 | A lot of them leave and collect messages there , so there was nothing to blame the owner for . |
| 27 | Even where there was only one purchaser , there was nothing to identify the particular cases of wine in stock as the subject-matter of the purchaser 's contract . |
| 28 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |
| 29 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 30 | There was nothing to suggest the two events were linked . |