Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I ca n't remember what , the last time we were seeing each other it |
| 2 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 3 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 4 | I remember having a problem like that where we were erm we had a , a load of erm we were watering that material it was warmed , we thought of course would be alright but they did er , they were quite sensitive to it and they looked quite miserable . |
| 5 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 6 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 7 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 8 | The President himself remarked : ‘ I think if Barbara Bush were running this year she 'd be elected , but it 's too late . ’ |
| 9 | The effect of the proviso was that if the plaintiff were to recover post-termination commission he would be required to give up some freedom which he would otherwise have had , namely the freedom to take employment in whichever field he wished . |
| 10 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 11 | Well I suppose if it was raining one night she might have done . |
| 12 | No they , they did n't because the that 's right because it was cancelled last year it was the year before she did . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember now , I know I 've had a go to have a look at them to see how , to see exactly how , cos what I thought , what I thought I was gon na do was , I did n't like the furniture of the , of the speakers and when I was keeping that system I was gon na remount the speakers in the box a bit more you know decorative |
| 14 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 15 | Well that was said last week it was going up . |
| 16 | ‘ It has to do with what was said last time I was here . ’ |
| 17 | I think hers was built early spring I think . |
| 18 | If the National Health Service Management Executive was to tackle this issue it might find that it was pushing at an open door . |
| 19 | Milk Race organisers had asked Richmondshire District Council if it would support a sprint section through the town , but the recreation committee was told last night it would have to pay £1,000 £600 for prize money and £400 as a management fee . |
| 20 | The feeling was growing each time they met , and Alain 's dark eyes told her he knew . |
| 21 | If you was describing that man you 'd all get his clothes I bet , but I bet there 's three things you would forget about him , straight away . |
| 22 | Where I was going that morning I forget |
| 23 | In Dec. 1892 another meeting was called this time it was to discuss the construction of a high level bridge , and to print a pamphlet together with a lithograph plan of the proposed bridge . |
| 24 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 25 | Whether it 's cos the wind was blowing that way I du n no . |
| 26 | Yeah well she was saying other day she 's he 's never away from her he 's a damn nuisance ! |
| 27 | , but I was saying any way I like |
| 28 | Kerry was saying last night she 's choosing tuition . |
| 29 | What pleased him , he told me , was that he had made a slow but gradual improvement in his times over the three-day session and Joe Millar , his backer , was also delighted at the methodical , no-nonsense way in which Jeremy was approaching any problem he encountered . |
| 30 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |