Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 2 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 3 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 4 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 5 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 6 | It was a linchpin of Lewis 's theism that thought itself was a metaphysical act ; his exploration of this theme in his book Miracles and the subsequent heated debate between himself and a fellow-Christian philosopher , Elizabeth Anscombe , provided one of the great academic sideshows in the Oxford of the late 1940s . |
| 7 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 8 | But all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire . |
| 9 | Alice said she would come now , it was only just down the road , in a bright chatty voice that insisted there was no real problem , nothing wrong . |
| 10 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 11 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 12 | The great hand that held me was a mottled blue , crusted and filthy . |
| 13 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 14 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 15 | Being a true professional , she flashed a smile — as Fred hung on for dear life — and admitted it was a pretty paw show . |
| 16 | I preferred to cross the ferry to the hotel on the other side , and found there was a spare bed though not a spare room . |
| 17 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 18 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 19 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 20 | And then Leicester got the bit between the teeth and scored what was a very goal really by your standards was n't it ? |
| 21 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 22 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 23 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 24 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 25 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 26 | She turned and saw it was a young man quite obviously afflicted by Down 's syndrome who had called her . |
| 27 | He had heard many stories about Yanto , and knew he was a rough handful . |
| 28 | ‘ When at Fort Desire , in Patagonia ( lat 48 ’ ) , Mr Martens shot an ostrich ; and I looked at it , forgetting at the moment , in the most unaccountable manner , the whole subject of the petise , and thought it was a two-third grown one of the common sort . |
| 29 | He liked George Birkitt and thought he was a good actor . |
| 30 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |