Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Everything was normal and the shift going smoothly until about 3 a.m. when the human body is at its lowest ebb ( according to the medical profession ) and we do n't feel at our best . |
| 32 | A hundred years later there were 90,000 and the town had a bad reputation for strikes . |
| 33 | There was melancholy and a feeling in the air of being cheated . |
| 34 | West Indies had had their triumphs before , of course , but now things were different ; they were no longer inferior to whites , they were unified , they were strong and the future was theirs . |
| 35 | Today they were open and the glass was a bare blank . |
| 36 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 37 | It was ten-thirty and the wedding was fixed for an hour 's time . |
| 38 | When she woke , it was late and the sun was coming in through the greasy , grey window . |
| 39 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 40 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
| 41 | It was dusty and the spine was broken , but at least it was in English . |
| 42 | It was pitch-dark and the house was very quiet when the first effects of the treatment woke him . |
| 43 | It was 1987 and the State of Emergency in South Africa was strangling the black opposition . |
| 44 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 45 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 46 | Much later , when it was dark and the yard was quieter at last , the door from the hall opened , and then her own , and Thorfinn came in . |
| 47 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 48 | Soon it was dark and the Christmas evening was in full swing . |
| 49 | It was dark and the car was buffeted by the wind ; the headlights were scarcely reflected from the black road surface or from the moorland turf on either side . |
| 50 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 51 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 52 | Well , seventy-five per cent of me knew it was real and the rest of me , well , silly though it sounds , I almost believed in the horsy hobgoblins . ’ |
| 53 | But it was short-lived and the State soon sought once again to enforce ‘ homogeneity ’ . |
| 54 | It was warm and the track is fast . |
| 55 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 56 | Formally , it was parliamentary and the approval of the Supreme Soviet was needed for all significant laws and appointments . |
| 57 | Although it was cold and the air was running out , she was burning up . |
| 58 | It was cold and the man 's dogs lay down to rest and stay warm . |
| 59 | It was cold and the Estuary was no longer sparkling blue : it was an opaque , sullen grey . |
| 60 | It was cold , it was cold and the roof was made of bones . |