Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samuel Johnson , who was something of a hero of the new school , once remarked that a man is seldom so innocently employed as when he is making money , and that celebrated remark might serve as a slogan for much of modern British fiction . |
| 2 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 3 | The famous example of a prominent scientist and Christian who was something like a fundamentalist is Philip Gosse . |
| 4 | Michael Aspel , who made his first TV appearance in 1957 , hosts The Trouble With The Fifties , an LWT special which revives the decade 's golden moments with vintage clips and an audience of anyone who was anybody at the time . |
| 5 | Sandy and Eddie at two in the morning , surveying the evening 's crowd and explaining who was who to a newcomer : ‘ You see that one in the white vest , that 's his affair in the denim . |
| 6 | ‘ So who was it in the hotel ? |