Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 2 | Even so , I was rather surprised that a family must pay 3.50 for adults and 2.50 for kids to visit and listen to the BBC 's exhibition of favourite old radio programmes at Broadcasting House . |
| 3 | I was n't sure whether a distant haziness was dark vegetation or my vision being hazy . |
| 4 | I was as happy as a pig in shit . |
| 5 | I was as sick as a dog . |
| 6 | I was as stiff as a poker , and as red-hot with pain . |
| 7 | and I was better qualified than a lot of guys in my class and yet they left college and got a job right away ! |
| 8 | Whatever her reasoning , I was greatly shocked that a woman of her achievements and reputation should stoop to such shabby fibbing . |
| 9 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 10 | I was more baffled than a pregnant postulant in a eunuch 's prefab . |
| 11 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |
| 12 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 13 | I was very surprised when a bloke in 1990 was asking £250 ono for the same guitar . |
| 14 | I was about sixteen and a half then or going for seventeen aye . |
| 15 | That was when I was about fourteen and a half . |
| 16 | Even though I was about eight and a half . |
| 17 | The punt sailed out across a stretch of the cistern which was as calm as a pond . |
| 18 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 19 | An occasion marked by a speech from the president himself , Peter Mead of Abbot Mead Vickers , which was noticeably defensive although a few of the jokes might have been considered mildly offensive by one or two sections of society ( indicating that the IPA , like kindred bodies , is still predominantly white , male and middle-class ) . |
| 20 | So try twelve pennies and find all the numbers that will multiply together to make twelve and one you mentioned earlier which was very good cos a lot of people forget it was just twelve ones or one twelve . |
| 21 | We had stuff like a ‘ 79 Marshall combo , which was really wonderful and a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier amp , which was a beautiful amp . |
| 22 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 23 | And , if she were here three and a half minutes , that 's all she were 'ere , and it and it 'em fifty quid . |
| 24 | I saw her an hour since and she were as right as a bobbin . " |
| 25 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You were as mad as a March hare . ’ |
| 27 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 28 | She said when she saw you last you were as thin as a rake — and she 's right . |
| 29 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
| 30 | She was n't more than a few minutes late , but P.C. Clifford kept his word . |