Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 2 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 3 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 4 | I was all prepared he was suggesting there was a beautiful big orange over there , it was , he found out that neither of us , non , |
| 5 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 6 | And , of course , when a crime was reported they were the ones who had to notify the Parquet in the first place . |
| 7 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |
| 8 | When it was built it was a significant addition to the city 's houses as it heralded the start of the restructuring that saw the completion of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II . |
| 9 | At the time the L & B railway was built there were no railway carriage building firms so that underframes for original stock were constructed at Euston or , as it was then called , Euston Grove Station , while bodies were built by a West End road vehicle builder and carted from his works to the station . |
| 10 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 11 | Georgia Griffiths ' drugs charges attracted national attention when it was revealed she was the daughter of a court recorder … and the crown court case had to be moved to Birmingham because the Oxford judge knew her father . |
| 12 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 13 | When market researcher Maya Nygaar , 25 , saw Kay 's picture and was told he was a man from Bolton without wealth or power she dismissed him . |
| 14 | ‘ I was told he was a scientist , a genius , but … |
| 15 | which I was , which I was very worried about because I was told it was a substitute for sex |
| 16 | ‘ I was told it was a very good pick-me-up , and it is . |
| 17 | Oh yes I I mean the Irish Water Spaniel well well we got ours because I was told it was the most intelligent dog in the world . |
| 18 | ‘ I was told I was no use in the house . |
| 19 | When I asked Special Branch for extra men for surveillance work , I was told there were no extra men available . |
| 20 | As I told you , when my friend enquired about a job a couple of weeks ago she was told there were no vacancies at all . ’ |
| 21 | In one pioneering agreement , a " refresh rate " for VDU screens of 57 hertz was agreed which was a compromise between management requests for 50 hz ( which most VDUs conform to ) and the union policy of 60 hz . |
| 22 | When my own daughter was born I was a single parent , and had to work to pay the bills , so I missed the best years of her childhood . |
| 23 | From the moment I was born I was a nuisance . |
| 24 | But if this element was lacking there was no conversion . |
| 25 | Because you see that surface water , it was only surface water , because when that boat was drifting there was an awful lot of movement . |
| 26 | But erm she was saying there were a group that she sort of went were alongside their group which were the |
| 27 | I I was aware , when P C was saying it was a slight contradiction , all I can suggest sir is that er whilst I was putting the door in P C would have been controlling his troops |
| 28 | It was not a long journey and as the sun was shining it was a very pleasant one . |
| 29 | Mr Major , delighted with his spectacular success in securing an historic fourth term in power for the Tories , said his first task was to ensure there was a ‘ broadly based recovery in which all will share ’ . |
| 30 | He said his party 's policy was to ensure there was a nursery place for every three and four-year-old whose parent wanted it by 2000 . |