Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition .
2 I struggled up to show I was n't wolf meat .
3 I was n't chewing gum though , I was eating sweets
4 I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority .
5 She go we were all talking about , you know , Christmas shop shopping , and L B comes in and goes yeah well when I was out Christmas shoplifting
6 She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs
7 I was there Saturday night er , and Saturday evening and erm what 's her name ?
8 . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station .
9 No I was only garrison artillery on guns .
10 I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ?
11 The positive non-inflammatory bowel disease culture also grew acid fast bacilli which were not M paratuberculosis .
12 To this end the fish food business , which was mainly trout food was sold to the Swedish Company in 1982 and the farm feed business to 's of Burston in 1984 .
13 And many women who came who were not labour movement activists welcomed Women for Socialism initiative , considering the time somewhat overdue for labour movement women to reach out to other socialist-feminists .
14 You were even lip reading .
15 Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought
16 Wade will , of course , always be remembered for one special summer 's afternoon at the All England Club , but she was also world number two in 1975 and won the first-ever U.S. Open in 1968 .
17 Lorna Lewis might not have made a picture since a flopperoo called It Happened in Monte Carlo three years ago , but she was still Hollywood royalty .
18 Someone who was neither service class nor intermediate class would , by elimination , be working class .
19 He said the comments were ‘ deeply revealing ’ about Mr Major , who was both Treasury Chief Secretary and Chancellor in the Thatcher government .
20 Some time after this , Mullova went to live in Vienna with Claudio Abbado , who was then music director of the Vienna State Opera .
21 I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well .
22 There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use .
23 That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse .
24 There was even railway time observed in clocks , as if the sun itself had given in .
25 There was even railway time observed in clocks , as if the sun itself had given in .
26 Maybe the working class was loyal and could be trusted to display " goodwill " and deference to their " betters " ; and maybe there was even party advantage to be gained from seizing the initiative on reform .
27 There was also steadfastness funding from the Jordanian-PLO Joint Fund .
28 Some $12.8billion was funnelled through the plan between April 1948 and June 1952 , but there was also US aid through other agencies and to other parts of the world , including a substantial slice for Japan .
29 At the time of the Spanish contact , there was about 90% forest cover and the population was about half a million ; by 1945 , the forest cover was some 75% and the population 19 million ; by 1976 , the cover was down to 38% and by 1980 27% and that partly disturbed .
30 ‘ You knew that there was still Darkfall activity when you sent us in ? ’
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