Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 2 | Stan Wilson became a sergeant in the Army Educational Corps ‘ it 's said that the only battle they ever won was the 1945 General Election for Labour ’ before spending 34 years at what he terms the chalk face . |
| 3 | The last horse we ever had was the best , a plump little Dales pony called Thomas . |
| 4 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 5 | Filmer , I was interested to see as I distributed glasses , was smiling pleasantly in all directions , when the last thing he probably wanted was the enormous smash-hit the train enterprise was proving . |
| 6 | What she mainly felt was the sheer incongruity of talking about Undry in terms of sale rooms and banknotes … and at the same time , the impossibility of telling even Ben Hesketh the truth . |
| 7 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 8 | But as Kenneth Connor told me , ‘ What she actually saw was the first full frontals ever on view during the making of a British film . |
| 9 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |