Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The other nightmare he remembered in detail was the one about the Black Death .
2 It was also noted today at these er presentations that I was the one with the least Brummie accent .
3 He was the one with the distant , distracted look and the voice which sounded as though it were the product of an experiment by Dr Timothy Leary .
4 I was the one with the insulating tape round the glasses and a face like Dick Whittington 's hankie .
5 cos Brassnick was the one with the square head and the cap were n't he ?
6 The prettiest was the one in the pale pink jacket , who never looked around her as she worked .
7 I suppose you could say I was a something of a late developer in two out of three .
8 Because there was no one at the bottom end , but they 've , they 've got all those extra people in it , it was really frightening when I look back , but the , the reason there could have been , there were er nineteen thousand at the Sunderland match but it was an all ticket game so they restricted the crowds somewhat .
9 All the steadings the King went by were empty , although hearth-fires still burned ; and there was no one at the little monastery of Dunning .
10 With Archbishop Courtenay long dead , there was no one from a greater world to consider .
11 They represented the spectrum of Christian conviction , East and West — though there was no one from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when it opened , and two Russian Orthodox clergy came shortly after the Council had got under way .
12 ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’
13 There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen .
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