Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul 's verdict : I was impressed by both the performance and flexibility of these trousers . |
| 2 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 3 | I was awake for just a little while and I could tell — ’ |
| 4 | I was bad for over a week with my neck ! |
| 5 | I was bad for about a week . |
| 6 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 7 | The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit . |
| 8 | The end-product was interpreted and enforced by judges who were independent of both the legislature and the executive and whose jobs were guaranteed regardless of how inconvenient they proved to be . |
| 9 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 10 | The precipitants to these outbursts were trivial and she was alarmed at both the extent of her anger and her lack of control over it . |
| 11 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 12 | Some woman journalist friend of his had a handicapped daughter and found she was entitled to virtually no help looking after her , whereas if she fostered someone else 's kid she got any number of handouts . |
| 13 | She was silent for quite a long time . |
| 14 | Finally , how did John Finnegan — known to be close to Smurfit — who was involved in both the UPH and Telecom purchases , fail to alert so important a client ? |
| 15 | They were two of only a handful of his employees allowed to enter this most private of havens . |
| 16 | They were transitional in almost every respect including that of audience composition . |
| 17 | In some areas they were able to further the cause of reform through their positions on the bench of justices . |
| 18 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 19 | Before everything else , it was essential for both the Emperor and the nation that an Empress be found who could provide an heir . |
| 20 | As it was , it was impossible for even the most servile and well-meaning to avoid offence . |
| 21 | Some rich men took utterly destitute people into their houses , where they performed menial services , and it was usual for even the moderately well-off to invite poor men and strangers off the street to eat meals at home . |
| 22 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 23 | But it was obvious to even the meanest intelligence that surprise was the least descriptive word to be applied to her . |
| 24 | 1727 ) , he was involved in virtually every significant building project in the university . |
| 25 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 26 | He preferred the furtherance of his own prestige over the needs of his kingdom — especially England , from where he was absent for almost the entire period of his kingship . |
| 27 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 28 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 29 | What was self-evident from even a casual perusal of the book was how extensively the unreconciled Dominion had influenced the others . |