Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed right where he was until good manners forced her to offer to make him a drink too . |
| 2 | And I 'd be aggressive and loud , but not aggressive towards him , but be loud and strolling up and down , making out I was a damn sight worse off than I was and all that . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't like sharing my men , ’ she said , intending to sound far more experienced than she was and succeeding . |
| 4 | The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove . |
| 5 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 6 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 7 | And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration . |
| 8 | But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas . |
| 9 | What they could have in common it would be difficult to guess , unless it was that both were defiantly unacademic and felt the need to make a common front against the teachers — not that learning sat particularly heavy on any of them , either . |
| 10 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 11 | Oh no I the twenty six strike er is just a You know a very very big and er you know er railway man , leader of the strike , buying all the shares because he was But that 's one of the things , because it was a headline in the |
| 12 | No , since there was but one way in , by that way he must go . |
| 13 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 14 | Whether she had seen those particular swifts Creggan did not know , for she was as usual high at the back of her cage . |
| 15 | diverting attention from his hopelessness , while helping the group to support him vis-a-vis the child to be helped — not by recounting their own success stories but by recognising what support potential he might already have , buried as it was but ready to be drawn out by support from others . |
| 16 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 17 | Such advice is becoming as offensive , ignorant and out of touch as it was when first uttered by the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) many years ago . |
| 18 | Things were pretty tense as it was and all her own tension had come flooding back , especially when she thought of her reaction to Felipe . |