Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |
| 2 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 3 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 4 | She was thirty-three when the baby was born . |
| 5 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 6 | The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises . |
| 7 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 8 | It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at . |
| 9 | It was odd how the scar had remained all these years . |
| 10 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 11 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 12 | It was all rather a relief . |
| 13 | For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise . |
| 14 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 15 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
| 16 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 18 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
| 19 | It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in . |
| 20 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
| 21 | Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions . |
| 22 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 23 | It was all only an excuse . |
| 24 | Excitement had been steadily rising in the crowded chamber during the closing stages of the debate on a new clause to be added to the Criminal Justice Bill , but jubilation found vent in a roar of cheering when it was evident how the vote had gone … |
| 25 | It was disconcerting how the desire not to appear a fool followed one into captivity . |
| 26 | he was alright still a bit stupid , but he was n't as bad as he is in class |