Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was formerly a Lecturer in Phonetics and Linguistics at Queen Margaret College , Edinburgh and while there , I developed a number of computer programs to assist with my teaching . |
| 2 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 3 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 4 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 5 | He seemed real and solid ; it was myself who felt weightless as though I was just a conduit for all these sensations . . |
| 6 | I was just a piece of luggage to be labelled and sent wherever they wanted . |
| 7 | So I was selected as company runner , which meant that I was also a kind of servant , I forget the word … ’ |
| 8 | He went on : ‘ Although I was already a member of the Church of England before joining the Friends ’ School in 1937 , I lean very much towards the Quaker faith . |
| 9 | I was never a part of any plot with them . ’ |
| 10 | I was always a rebel with many causes and I paid the price accordingly . |
| 11 | I was certainly a subject of the generous hospitality of this family , but I was not alone . |
| 12 | I was then a disciple of Herbert Read 's and his " education of the senses " , but it was Basil , ill the no-nonsense power of his belief , who did much to give me a life-long conviction about the place of art education . |
| 13 | I was there a couple of weeks and the record business went bust and she had to close down . |
| 14 | The final section must have been built very quickly , because the path finished at the forest edge when I was there a couple of months ago . |
| 15 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 16 | ‘ I made an awful lot of money and I was still a reporter with The Northern ‘ I remember I would turn up to journalists ’ union meetings wearing a Walls ice cream coat . ’ |
| 17 | She had said , ‘ Well , I was only a child in the sixties , so I 've got to have my sixties now . ’ |
| 18 | I was only a boy of ten at the time , but it left its mark on me too . |
| 19 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 20 | They took no notice of me ; they were creatures of the night , the air and the ocean , and I was only a piece of the land , meaningless , to be flown round like a boulder or a stump of wood . |
| 21 | It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half-completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work ’ ( well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate ’ . |
| 22 | But er it was only u until I left the school cos I was only a matter of eight when I left that school so er I was n't in a it was n't in any progressive sort of style then I mean we wer it was more rudiments of education that we were taught and er |
| 23 | I was only a refugee at present . |
| 24 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 25 | Given his hard-line views — in particular his anti-Spanish outlook , his personal hostility to Mary 's chief religious adviser , Cardinal Pole , and his inflexibility over the issue of ecclesiastical property-it was only a matter of time before relations between England and the Holy See foundered . |
| 26 | This surely puts into perspective the fundamental problem of Mary Queen of Scots , which was neither a matter of sex nor of religion . |
| 27 | She picked it up and saw the name Jarrett Keach flowing across it in brown mock handwriting which was presumably a facsimile of Jarrett 's own signature . |
| 28 | The mill , which was probably a battery of four stamps , each a heavy timber balk shod with iron and lifted alternatively by cams on a revolving axle , was the cause of a dissension in 1620 between Sir Daniel Fleming 's tenants of the low lying land upon either side of the St. Martin 's beck , between Coniston village and the lake ; and Daniel Höchstetter for the mining works . |
| 29 | Which was probably a quotation from something , though Rufus did not know what and thought fastidiously that it was in bad taste , histrionic , though just like Adam . |
| 30 | Craig had fielded twice as many candidates and won fewer seats ; a result which was probably a combination of public reaction to Vanguard 's lack of clear policy and a lack of enthusiasm for some of the Vanguard candidates . |