Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
| 2 | Cud were my favourite band at the time , ’ he says . |
| 3 | To us the benefits , apart from his obvious public profile and his very great technical knowledge , were his ready association with the problems and the thought processes of smaller and medium-sized clients which are particularly our market place . |
| 4 | When he stirred the embers there was nothing recognisable left in the gray flaking ashes . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , they had eaten all their K rations see , then they started on the camels and the mules , then the cats and dogs , until finally there was nothing edible left in the fort . |
| 6 | It was my sole contribution to the conversation . |
| 7 | He was my only route to the assassin . ’ |
| 8 | He was my only link with the cross . |
| 9 | Everybody had their own problems and I had mine with losing two the two babies , I had mine wondering if I 'd lose another you see and that that was my particular worry at the time . |
| 10 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 11 | George was my favourite character in the book as I could feel what he felt inside me . |
| 12 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 13 | During this period of time he made the mistake of threatening the archdeacon , Cautinus , who fled to the court of king Theudebald , announced the death of Gallus , and was himself consecrated bishop on the king 's orders . |
| 14 | ONE OF the amazing aspects of the crisis caused by the decision of the government to close over half the pits , and make more than 30,000 miners redundant , was their apparent surprise at the reaction of the people of the country . |
| 15 | ‘ I wonder who on earth they are ? ’ was their only contribution to the general merriment . |
| 16 | But joy in that country at Jansher 's triumph and their continuing monopoly of the game 's most valued crown will be tempered by the fact that , in the absence of Jahangir Khan , the new champion was their only representative in the main draw of 32 . |
| 17 | There were also several prints of buds and flowers in the range , but these were by no means predominant , nor , yet , was their ultimate significance to the company glaringly apparent . |
| 18 | It was their watchful defence towards the even more unusual exter in their midst . |
| 19 | A COMMON criticism levelled by Tory propagandists at the Wilson and Callaghan Labour governments was their regular borrowing from the IMF . |
| 20 | What intrigued me was their mutual indifference to an activity I 'd always imagined to be both intimate and passionate . |
| 21 | Such was their purported evidence for a gamma ray from a neutron capture , an essential piece of the case for fusion taking place in their test-tube . |
| 22 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 23 | But then , neither was her regular income from the Cage . |
| 24 | And , again in contrast to being a useful , helpful sensible little girl , was her cosy friendship with the changing series of under-housemaids who laughed so readily at her jokes and gave her lumps of sugar from morning tea trays — sometimes it was a peppermint . |
| 25 | I was her oafish idiot of a son who could n't be expected to make a success of anything — not even of his marriage . ’ |
| 26 | He was her only link with the outside world , the key to her freedom . |
| 27 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 28 | Her best-known work was her detailed investigation of the serpentines , and her joint paper with Bonney in 1905 on the microscopic structure of minerals forming serpentine was of special interest . |
| 29 | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind , one hand at her throat , the other yanking at her hair ; she screeched , and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her , but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress , and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida ( what was she underneath ? |
| 30 | She used to say that Christmas Eve was her favourite day of the year , and her enthusiasm added to the delight of anticipation . |