Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was there Saturday night er , and Saturday evening and erm what 's her name ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yeah well , there was n't many shops there really dear , there were just the er fishmongers and greengrocers and the butchers and the , we used to have to go there to get , to queue up , you had to queue because there was no , not many shops to be there you see to serve you , it 's altered a lot now , there 's a lot more shops now and the doctors I used to have to queue right out the gate , the doctors a big long queue , there was only Dr surgery and then we had another doctor came that started down at erm the bottom of erm Harlow near where , where do they call that ? |
| 5 | Well they were n't York stone then were they ? |
| 6 | They were originally Wiltshire country people , the grandmother and mother being both illiterate , and the grandfather a blacksmith . |
| 7 | No Sat you used to work Fridays and I used to go out , no it were n't Saturday night |
| 8 | It was nevertheless US equipment that was most in the news , after the struggle in Congress to carry through the sale of F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia in the face of resolute opposition from Israel and its supporters in the American legislature . |
| 9 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
| 10 | Well , so , no it was n't Saturday night then . |
| 11 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 12 | It was n't Lloyds fault , it was just that they were complying with the original P E P regulations about reporting and , and er so on , so they had to charge more . |
| 13 | She was taken to a small Gestapo prison near the Bastille , and thanked her lucky stars it was n't Gestapo HQ on the Avenue Foch . |
| 14 | Two packets of Cuppa Soup , but I 'm not sure that it was n't Cuppa Soup , cos I 've said to Thomas , I 'm not at the moment . |
| 15 | It was not Sussex backwardness alone that brought trouble but the collapse of the artificial prosperity across England when the wars ended in 1815 and were followed by a series of disastrous harvests . |
| 16 | It was I remember reading in the paper that it 's been it 's been filmed at a house which no one 's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions , it was not Bradley Hall |
| 17 | If it was not Bradley Hall , it ca n't be Bradley Hall again , they 're always going in there ! |
| 18 | It was not Nobel prize material , just a slick method of protein analysis , which many other experimenters had found immediately useful . |
| 19 | But it was not Resenence Jeopardy who danced . |
| 20 | It was also Bill Hand that rapped the winner past Albert Iremonger to defeat Notts County in a third replay of the ( old ) 2nd round FA Cup-tie against Notts County back in 1924 . |
| 21 | Two rash tackles , one at the other end by Mike and now one at this end in the Shrewsbury with it was certainly Shrewsbury penalty goa erm penalty was won , Blackburn 's was as well . |
| 22 | But somehow it was always Sunday afternoon in Woodburn , as she remembered it . |
| 23 | ‘ And it was definitely Saturday night ? ’ |
| 24 | ALAN CORK , fast becoming as big a folk hero at Bramall Lane as he was down Wimbledon way , has set a new record . |
| 25 | While not far away at what was once Bloxham railway station , the steam era is long gone . |
| 26 | The survivors from Tiranoc and what was once Nagarythe start rebuilding their lands . |