Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 2 | I was n't a founder member . |
| 3 | ‘ I was n't a Girl Guide for nothing . |
| 4 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 5 | I was n't a Trade Unionist so I did n't bother . |
| 6 | If I was n't a hat designer I 'm sure I 'd have loads of hats anyway . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I was just a film actor maybe I would have done because that 's where all the films get made . |
| 8 | I was just a care assistant then , and I did n't know her too well at that time . |
| 9 | More recently the revelation that I was also a Punch columnist has provoked an equally predictable and ill-informed reaction . |
| 10 | If I was a Christian at all — and I was n't sure that I was — I thought I was probably a custard Christian . |
| 11 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 12 | if we 're serious about that we need I think to review that very regularly , because I moved offices and discovered I was still a fire officer for a part of the office I was n't even part of , |
| 13 | Well like any other shop lad , and although worked with me father I was still a shop lad . |
| 14 | I was now a climbing convert ! |
| 15 | but I was only a gingerbread woman |
| 16 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 17 | But his was largely a media conglomerate : the prime example of those distinctive features listed earlier : large in scope and scale , with modern management and a shifting and volatile balance of interests . |
| 18 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 19 | But his was still a subject class . |
| 20 | The salon , which was formerly a linen mill , has had its two top floors converted into gallery space , and the exhibition of local talent opens tomorrow ( Thursday , September 2 ) . |
| 21 | The auditors picked up that we had a pink purchase order form which was neither a commissioning letter nor a contract . |
| 22 | Still worse , he could imagine he recognised a face which was n't a FAKINTIL man at all . |
| 23 | South Korea which was not a COCOM member , had agreed to observe COCOM regulations . |
| 24 | It has bought a dud Utah thrift , MountainWest , which was already a Visa card-issuer . |
| 25 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 26 | ‘ Then we had a Highway Code-cum-driving practice test and a 30-minute test on everything from dirt roads to motorways , which was partly an economy test driving at the maximum safe speed . |
| 27 | Thus the Simonova , which was technically a Navy vessel , was crewed by civilians and carried its Navy complement as passengers . |
| 28 | The last hurdle to liquidation was overcome in August when a New York bankruptcy court refused to reopen a class action negligence suit brought by 160,000 former investors in Jim Bakker 's Praise the Lord ministry , which was once a Laventhol client . |
| 29 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 30 | This is an attractive 18th-century building which was originally a village inn . |