Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 2 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 3 | But although I was in great pain , I was desperate to know if Magwitch was safe . |
| 4 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 5 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others , he thought with cold clarity , if someone tells the papers , or the police and thence the papers , that I was there during the summer of 1976 , living there , it will be all up with me . |
| 6 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 7 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 8 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 9 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 10 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 11 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 12 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 13 | I 'd only drink half a pint , so I was in great demand — the sergeant would have the rest . |
| 14 | Once I was in that job , I started looking to see where the bodies were buried . ’ |
| 15 | He was already handing her the piece of paper which certified that she was in good health and not suffering from any infectious disease . |
| 16 | There was some evidence that she was in complete ignorance of the power of attorney and of her power of sale . |
| 17 | As I made these suggestions to her , I was continually reminding her that she was feeling very relaxed and comfortable and that she was in complete control of the situation and need do nothing ( even in her imagination ) that she did not choose to . |
| 18 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 19 | She waved away Erika 's protest that she was in strict training . |
| 20 | Mr Morton , speaking after the launch in America of an updated version of his book , said : ‘ A campaign began to build up against Diana that she was mad and mentally unstable , that she was somehow bending reality , did n't tell the truth and that she was in some way responsible for this book . ’ |
| 21 | Gary should have been a girl , she had thought , for he was half a head smaller than she was with fair curling hair , baby-blue eyes and long thick lashes that were the envy of every woman who met him . |
| 22 | Karen taught physical education , so she was in good shape . |
| 23 | She 'd be even better , too , she thought prayerfully , once she was on dry land . |
| 24 | They had , there , there was a small section still made kettles during the war cos I mean kettles wore out , wear out just the same , you 've still got to have a kettle or a bucket , but erm that 's like everything else there was only , only a small section so they was in short supply . |
| 25 | He had had assurance from Jesus , that although he was dying , although he was in physical torment and pain , going through one of most excruciating , awful deaths imaginable ! |
| 26 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 27 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 28 | The party manifesto stressed the importance of the link within the UK to the extent that it was of paramount importance that any proposals made by the Constitutional Convention must be fully acceptable to the United Kingdom government and people . |
| 29 | In researching this complex and multi-faceted problem , we felt that it was of paramount importance to place this issue within an historical , international and political context . |
| 30 | But in the light of what has been said we can also see that it was of especial significance in emancipating , not merely the hand from locomotion , but the brain from its reliance on chemical stimuli mediated by the sense of smell . |