Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 2 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 3 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 4 | Stepney in the late 18th century was becoming what the Northern Heights — Highgate and Hampstead — became later , namely , an early form of London suburbia . |
| 5 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 6 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 7 | Me and me mam were singing it the other night . |