Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Please to remember I was no longer actually the horse-thief , but I was now at Warboys with the Pathfinder Training Unit and so I was training replacements . |
2 | So I was elected chairman of the meeting in committee , which is where all the detailed discussion and drafting takes place . |
3 | so I was started work then and I said well look I just ca n't do it and then |
4 | And all I could think of was the way that baby had felt in my arms , and inside I was hating God for doing this to me . ’ |
5 | He cited " personal reasons " for his decision to stand down which was to take effect following the selection of his successor at a special party convention , expected in November . |
6 | Suddenly she was having difficulty swallowing . |
7 | ‘ Those waters were not particularly dangerous — perhaps she was taking part in some way in the ‘ pacification ’ of the Highlands . |
8 | Perhaps she was misusing English . |
9 | Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind . |
10 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
11 | Her heart quickened — perhaps they were discussing Puddephat 's mysterious disappearance ? |
12 | The rest of the family was in the sitting-room and the last time she had looked in they were eating chocolates and sorting through a pile of videos . |
13 | Henceforth they were denied access to active participation in the public cult and ( by implication of the biblical text which concentrated upon male activity ) deemed exempt from the obligation to fulfil many of the commandments — a loaded exemption given the fact that Judaism by this time was already very much a religion of performance , moving towards being a religion dominated by a plethora of commandments governing virtually every aspect of daily existence . |
14 | The group 's press officer , Mick Houghton , thought it was Gregory 's departure that he would soon be explaining to the press when suddenly he was told Charman was out . |
15 | Basically it was receiving telephone calls from the public erm and using that information to put on a computer to send officers to incidents various incidents . |
16 | But a teacher , who had a contact at Cardiff City , got him a trial and before long he was representing Wales Under-18 against England at Elland Road , alongside John Toshack and marked by David Nish . |
17 | But a teacher , who had a contact at Cardiff City , got him a trial and before long he was representing Wales Under-18 against England at Elland Road , alongside John Toshack and marked by David Nish . |
18 | Perhaps it was seeing signs advertising ‘ Blogg 's Beer ’ that led East Enders to immortalise the name Bloggs as the Cockney equivalent of Mr Everyman . |
19 | It would doubtless hoot derisively as it drew level ; perhaps it was carrying poisons , enema pumps and cream tarts , or supplies for chemists and mathematicians . |
20 | Mr Lucas said Michael worked for Bond Corporation for around five years and was trusted so greatly he was given responsibility for the security of international VIPs who visited Western Australia during Bond 's America 's Cup defence three years ago . |
21 | By the shore the driftwood was still travelling upriver , but in midstream it was gathering way headlong in the other direction . |
22 | So he was taking bucket to get it . |
23 | So he was born de Lisle , and it was at the point that he was in military school that he added the Rouget , you know , like having a double barrelled name , |
24 | So he was travelling north , into the mountains . |
25 | On the eighth of February of nineteen seventy two died and on the eleventh of May seventy three died and the plaintiff 's continued the action but the action failed so he was awarded damages from the sale of his estate and on the twenty first of July nineteen seventy two commenced an action against solicitors for negligence or breach of professional duty in detecting to register the option necessity of so doing . |
26 | So he was told petrol has gone up . |
27 | And so it was born Information Systems Unit or ISU . |
28 | So it was organized collecting of |
29 | So it was transporting coal in and out of the pit ? |
30 | A handful of scraps provided enough encouragement , and soon I was catching starlings in batches of up to a dozen . |