Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] was [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the afternoon I was a nervous wreck . |
| 2 | But once at university I was an apt student . |
| 3 | In your mind I was a scarlet woman and could be nothing else . |
| 4 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 5 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 6 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 7 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 8 | I once watched a film on the telly it was a pretty crap film really ! |
| 9 | In practice it was a straightforward piece of CIA terrorism designed to overthrow by force a legitimately elected government that America did not like . |
| 10 | THE stock market rang out 1989 in fine style yesterday but for the pound it was the familiar story of a struggling recovery from a previous hefty fall . |
| 11 | In effect it was a simple slap at both the school system and the way in which the system actually provokes bullying from pupils or teachers . |
| 12 | In a second condition it was an unlikely completion of the sentence , while remaining both syntactically and semantically consistent with the context . |
| 13 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 14 | Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety . |
| 15 | On the official side it was a great help to be able to speak with one voice , especially where our specialized knowledge of equipment and operational needs of the boats were concerned . |
| 16 | In this dream I was the invisible observer of the terrace outside Francis 's house in the Abacos . |
| 17 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |
| 18 | ‘ When I first saw the grand old lady she was a sorry sight ’ , said . |
| 19 | It was at this stage that came into her own , having learnt the skills of her five previous bosses ( and noted their shortcomings ) to such a degree she was a competent transport manager in her own right . |
| 20 | It was a pity she was an only child ; the fault of the riding accident , of course . |
| 21 | When Alison was at home she was an intrusive presence . |
| 22 | I called Philip 's wife Hilary in a previous novel , Changing Places , because it is an androgynous name and at that stage of their marriage she was the dominant partner in the marriage , or , as the saying is , wore the trousers . |
| 23 | And then the when they were built Sometimes some folk used to build them into what they called a hay soo It was a square kind of a thing but er and I do n't know why they put it into a hays hay soo as we say , but it seemed to er it seemed to be better to keep the h the wet out I suppose . |
| 24 | Although himself not a sportsman he was an enthusiastic supporter of sporting activities by deaf people and had been involved as an administrator in all prewar Deaf International Games . |
| 25 | For Mordecai it was a symbolic birthplace , for he was a direct descendant from one of the millions of Jews who had been evacuated from the Middle East in 1990 . |
| 26 | At work he was a high flier and his salary was commensurate with his ability . |
| 27 | ‘ When Jane told us she had asked for a divorce it was a complete shock . ’ |
| 28 | In this pub it was the dark emptiness , the isolated figures clutching their half-empty glasses , eyes transfixed by the jumble of images on the television screen high on the wall . |
| 29 | For a very small boy it was a confusing time . |
| 30 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |