Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | You were even lip reading . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They were n't air crew , for God 's sake , they did n't join up to fly . |
| 17 | Well they were n't York stone then were they ? |
| 18 | They thought they were probably road maintenance men from the Cajamarca region . ’ |
| 19 | They were originally Wiltshire country people , the grandmother and mother being both illiterate , and the grandfather a blacksmith . |
| 20 | Well now I , Bull 's Eye Lamps , that we carried at night , they were merely paraffin oil lamps . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My gran had forgotten about coming over , you know and so we rem , reminded her was n't Christmas eve , the day before Christmas eve , tha you know , to see if she was still coming . |
| 23 | stew you know like it is a beef ah , but it were n't mince meat , but it were n't stew . |
| 24 | No Sat you used to work Fridays and I used to go out , no it were n't Saturday night |
| 25 | In Tuberville v Savage , the accused laid his hand on his sword and said : " If it were not assize time , I would not take such language . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After all , it was nearly lunch time . |
| 28 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 29 | She used to give them Pedigree Chum too , but it was mostly cat food . |
| 30 | It was mostly Crown land , divided into ‘ Rayles ’ ( enclosed areas for herding deer ) . |