Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this condition she was hardly a siren , she thought with an ironic little smile . |
| 2 | As a result it was also a place where much could be learnt and where people went , not only in need of a drink , but in search for something or someone . |
| 3 | Nevertheless she was her usual polite society self with Mr Sands — she had learned in her papa 's home and at the embassy how to put people at their ease — and all in all the sight of his skivvy doing the gracious afforded Dr Neil another bout of inward sardonic mirth , however it delighted young Mr Sands , who thought what a splendid creature she was , and a great pity she was only a servant — she had so much presence . |
| 4 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
| 5 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 6 | In that endless moment she was truly a part of Rune , sharing his strength of mind and body , his former pain and his present pleasure . |
| 7 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 8 | But he knew what he was looking at , though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments . |
| 9 | By our period it was often a subject of obsessive concern , and the masturbator was to become almost the archetypal image of the sex deviant . |
| 10 | Harbour had been in the middle of telling Freddie that in his opinion it was almost a blessing that the theatre would have to close . |
| 11 | At the beginning I was simply a labourer , which entailed doing all the preparation on the ground and ensuring that Eric on the roof was always supplied with materials to work with . |
| 12 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 13 | There were , there was , there was n't any runway it was just a grass airfield as there was a lot of them in those days erm this , this is why they , they could n't get any aircraft of any size in there you see , this is why some of them used to overshoot if they got twin engines before the war erm |
| 14 | As Keith Miller , the biggest hitter of them all , gave away his wicket first ball it was quite a performance , but Bailey remembers one factor that few would believe today . |
| 15 | I 've seen most of the programmes and for Mastermind it was just a question of re-reading all the Dr Who books again . ’ |
| 16 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 17 | Well like any other shop lad , and although worked with me father I was still a shop lad . |
| 18 | Not normally being in the business of art detection it was still a pleasure to help . |
| 19 | Here in the Abu Dhabi/Al Ain area it was both a statement and a signature used only by those whose lives were rooted in the place . |
| 20 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 21 | By this date , the monastic organization of English bishoprics was becoming an anomaly , and in an increasingly active administrative Church it was often a nuisance . |
| 22 | In this case it was probably a matter of a commercial bourgeoisie , itself still rising in importance , which had not yet found its styles in art . |
| 23 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 24 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 25 | In the Habsburg empire , under the most snobbish and conservative regime of all , " once a new family had gained a foothold in the foreign ministry it was almost a rule that the sons , and even the grandsons , remained in the profession " . |
| 26 | But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him . |
| 27 | In reality it was simply a recognition that the government had abandoned any serious attempt to keep monetary growth within targets . |
| 28 | It was n't easy for him to make new friends , particularly outside of whatever cast list he was currently a part , but occasionally it happened — as during the run of One Over The Eight . |
| 29 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 30 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |