Example sentences of "[was/were] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my best day for a week across wastes of compacted sand and grit . |
| 2 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 3 | This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered . |
| 4 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was its worst year for a decade both in terms of the growth of business volumes and of the level of bad debts that had to be absorbed on behalf of clients . |
| 9 | If one stroke settled Wadkins , it was his second putt for a four at the first hole . |
| 10 | His Third ( and again unnumbered ) Symphony is subtitled ‘ Urbs Roma ’ and was his winning entry for a competition in Bordeaux in 1856 . |
| 11 | All the press were very excited about Ade , writing that he was our big hope for the European Indoor Championships in Madrid . |
| 12 | ‘ It was our worst performance for a long time , ’ said manager Jack Charlton whose side will still need a point from their trip to Belfast in November if they do n't beat the Spaniards . |