Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
| 2 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 3 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 4 | Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car . |
| 5 | Now one of the things that was on the you know there was the great Radio City Music Hall . |
| 6 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 7 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 8 | And erm you know it was a a bad time really b you know it was the thirties I mean people say it 's bad now but er I do n't think it 's it 's as bad now as it was then . |
| 9 | I know it was the last straw of many . |
| 10 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 11 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 12 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 13 | I suppose I was the only one dawdling to look at her instead of going by as if she did n't exist . |
| 14 | I guess I was the first person to develop the idea of the modular system : ie. everything from the preamp to the power amp was modular . |
| 15 | ‘ He was unlucky to take 23 wickets in Sussex 's last two games of the season after the touring side had already been picked — I guess I was the lucky one to benefit . ’ |
| 16 | I suppose it was the poor tax payer ? |
| 17 | At least , I suppose it was the fifteenth … |
| 18 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 19 | I believe he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to live forever . |
| 20 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 21 | And when the businessman er realized he very generously sold it to the Trust er I believe the same I do n't know , I believe it was the same . |
| 22 | Police believe it was the same man . |
| 23 | And they reckon it was the best class of of er Douglas fir they ever had . |
| 24 | My brother reckons it was Beeney 's fault for not coming off his line but I reckon it was the two centre halfs again . |
| 25 | I reckon it was the hardest job next to coal-mining . |
| 26 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 27 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
| 28 | Once again , we ask what was the French response ? |
| 29 | We have only to consider what happened to East Germany and ask what was the underlying reason for secession from the Warsaw pact and reunification with West Germany . |
| 30 | I mean it was the only one with a with its own kitchen . |