Example sentences of "it [was/were] a dream " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write down this experience as if it were a dream . |
| 2 | It was a dream , but the disappointment and dreariness remained with me . |
| 3 | Then they awoke , and behold it was a dream . |
| 4 | It was a dream interview for the down-market tabloids . |
| 5 | ‘ Our romance was like Mills and Boon and we kept pinching ourselves , believing it was a dream and we would wake up soon . ’ |
| 6 | It was a dream that could , if he so wished , become reality . |
| 7 | It was a dream I had — We were wallpapering a wall , Dad and Mum and Bri and me . |
| 8 | It was a dream come true . |
| 9 | It was a dream . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a dream to do that from way , way back . |
| 11 | So it was a dream come true , like having a number one single or having grandchildren . ’ |
| 12 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
| 13 | It was a dream dictated both by politics and by affection , for he loved this orderly , thoughtful and respectful son , the disciple he had schooled himself , both personally and from a distance . ’ |
| 14 | CLEARING up after a volcano may sound like a nightmare , but for one man it was a dream come true . |
| 15 | There is no hint that dreaming , in this context , was any more than a poetic device , with no connotation of the supernatural simply from the fact that it was a dream . |
| 16 | The note embarrassed her considerably , although she suspected , even while she read it , that it was a dream . |
| 17 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 18 | It was a dream — a dream — so how come … ? |
| 19 | It was a dream I had last week |
| 20 | It was a dream , as insubstantial as the crumbling city . |
| 21 | It was a dream . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was a dream , an image of those enclosed and shaded gardens , the clarity of bubbling fountains , the marvellous fluidity of the script , the dazzling patterns of mosaic , the austere lines of its minarets , the absolute tenets of its Holy Book . |
| 23 | it was a dream , the getting up . |
| 24 | Yet it was a dream and I knew that dreams never last . |
| 25 | It was a dream room , she thought — as well as a room to dream in . |
| 26 | This was n't really happening , it was a dream , a nightmare , and she 'd wake up soon and turn off the alarm and get ready for work . |
| 27 | ‘ Last time it was a dream , this time we 're serious , ’ said the British Olympic Association chairman , Craig Reedie . |
| 28 | I thought it was a dream . |
| 29 | It was a dream that Mrs was there again . |