Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was there Saturday night er , and Saturday evening and erm what 's her name ? |
| 3 | . 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 . |
| 4 | No I was only garrison artillery on guns . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You were even lip reading . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Someone who was neither service class nor intermediate class would , by elimination , be working class . |
| 12 | He said the comments were ‘ deeply revealing ’ about Mr Major , who was both Treasury Chief Secretary and Chancellor in the Thatcher government . |
| 13 | Some time after this , Mullova went to live in Vienna with Claudio Abbado , who was then music director of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was even railway time observed in clocks , as if the sun itself had given in . |
| 17 | There was even railway time observed in clocks , as if the sun itself had given in . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was also steadfastness funding from the Jordanian-PLO Joint Fund . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You knew that there was still Darkfall activity when you sent us in ? ’ |
| 23 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 24 | Last night there was still flood water in Mostyn Street , Lloyd Street , West Shore , Kings Avenue and Trinity Avenue , Llandudno . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | There was only booking Amnesty ? |
| 27 | He thought that the Capra film had made ‘ greenish grass grow where there was only alkali dust before ’ because it consistently preferred ‘ the light touch to the heavy ’ and used actors ‘ who are thoroughly up to the work of acting ’ . |
| 28 | Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying , so there was only routine work to attend to . |
| 29 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |
| 30 | There was always pub rock , in sweaty drinkers like The Kensington , The Torrington , The Hope And Anchor The Greyhound and The Nashville . |