Example sentences of "[pron] was [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Someone who was neither service class nor intermediate class would , by elimination , be working class . |
| 10 | He said the comments were ‘ deeply revealing ’ about Mr Major , who was both Treasury Chief Secretary and Chancellor in the Thatcher government . |
| 11 | Some time after this , Mullova went to live in Vienna with Claudio Abbado , who was then music director of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 12 | There was even railway time observed in clocks , as if the sun itself had given in . |
| 13 | There was even railway time observed in clocks , as if the sun itself had given in . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was also steadfastness funding from the Jordanian-PLO Joint Fund . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You knew that there was still Darkfall activity when you sent us in ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Last night there was still flood water in Mostyn Street , Lloyd Street , West Shore , Kings Avenue and Trinity Avenue , Llandudno . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | There was only booking Amnesty ? |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying , so there was only routine work to attend to . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There was always pub rock , in sweaty drinkers like The Kensington , The Torrington , The Hope And Anchor The Greyhound and The Nashville . |
| 27 | Although there was always precision team work , they also had solo spots within the number , called ‘ individuals ’ by the Girls . |
| 28 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he designed and wired the control panel and delighted both in his consultant capacity and also in being again involved in his life 's obsession on what to him was virtually home ground . |
| 30 | 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 . |