Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 2 | I , I mean I was a bit disappointed yesterday cos it was a good do |
| 3 | Erm if you just liken it , I mean I was a beat officer here for eight years and the sorts of things that you 'd come on duty erm to see , are you may , you might get the nutty woman , who who er , you reoccur and you have to go and see her and you ge , erm , but all the shift members can then pass that to the beat officer . |
| 4 | Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune . |
| 5 | I did n't experience sexism 'til I was an adult . ’ |
| 6 | She took her Great Dane puppy for a walk for the first time , when I say she was a puppy , she was huge . |
| 7 | ‘ People say she was a junkie but how do they know that ? |
| 8 | People who go to sea and dislike a thing they come out with it : I say she was a Jonah . |
| 9 | And is it the same size ground as the match when there was twenty five thousand in you say you were a bit bothered about it in fact ? |
| 10 | Did I hear that detective say you were a reporter ? ’ |
| 11 | You could n't come and , you come bouncing in here and say you were a blacksmith . |
| 12 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 13 | It 's only then you say you were the person who telephoned . |
| 14 | Er as I say they were a U K company . |
| 15 | However , more recent sightings by Archbishop Trench in the sixteenth century suggest it was a beast in its own right : |
| 16 | I do n't know how he got out , I mean our road is so difficult anyway , of course there wa , that night there were two , yeah two when them , he had to get out in the morning , but er , I mean he did it , but I expect it was a struggle |
| 17 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 18 | When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government . |
| 19 | If I say it was wonderfully exciting , you will wonder when I am going to do it again , and if I say it was a mistake , which it was , you are going to ask me under what circumstances it might not have been a mistake . ’ |
| 20 | He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm . |
| 21 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 22 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |
| 23 | I know this district better than you ever will , and I say it was a neighbourhood crime . |
| 24 | So if you 're saying if say it was a railway where the gradients are very not very steep at all . |
| 25 | And you say it was a disappointment ! ’ |
| 26 | Windsfield and along that way to get to Bloxwich is n't it , and of course it used to , as I say it was an event , and the kids used to , we used to and then the lamplighter used to come round , pushing his pole , no electric lamps then , he used to come round . |
| 27 | ‘ They say it was an accident . |
| 28 | People living near the site say it was an accident waiting to happen . |
| 29 | Others say it was the shortage of pubs , shops , churches , transport and police stations . |
| 30 | Indeed , industry observers say it was the swingers who gave birth to the home porn video in the early-Eighties . |