Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was in a great state of elation . |
| 2 | So I was in a safe and so was the man . |
| 3 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 4 | So it was with a confident heart that your reporter negotiated the challenges of the M25 and M4 en route to Sonning for the 10.30am rendezvous with fellow support crew member , Liz Roberts and of course our fearless cyclists . |
| 5 | The overall results at Thunder Bay again favoured Scotland and so it was with a comfortable lead that we left for our final destination . |
| 6 | Oh so it was like a free party type |
| 7 | So it was like a large tub ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless he was in a festering condition , and the murder did induce a crisis . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it was with a great sense of relief that she found the patio deserted save for a handful of hotel guests drinking beer and enjoying the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 10 | Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out . |
| 11 | And it 's a lot , yesterday I was in a real state notice my eyes were just totally , gummed up , yuk ! |
| 12 | Once more he was in a good position when one of his tee shots hit an aluminium ladder which a spectator was carrying and ricocheted 40 yards into the trees . |
| 13 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 14 | A few hours later he was at a mega Hollywood party , the Welsh wonder from Stratford-upon-Avon , declaiming Shakespeare , drinking soundly , reciting Dylan Thomas , singing , story-telling , perhaps a little over the top , one or two thought , but to the majority a marvellous new whirlwind of talent and animal energy . |
| 15 | Now I was in a perfect world of ocean , mountains and great waters , of mighty men mightily acting or speaking , Napoleon and Byron himself . |
| 16 | As she was now she was worth a million , maybe ten . |
| 17 | When Grant regained consciousness again , the pain was still with him , but now it was at a bearable level . |
| 18 | And a couple of weeks ago I was at a chemical engineering company where the managing director told me that they were now using accountants for their safety experiments instead of rats . |
| 19 | Well it was like a new paragraph but I did n't leave a line . |
| 20 | But here he was in a deep tragedy : the man he had loved — yes , really loved , had been murdered , and he could shed no tears for him … |
| 21 | The men stood aside and she walked in between them … almost stumbled in between them ; and then she was in a large room in the middle of which was a long table covered in oilcloth . |
| 22 | And in the end , of course , he looked through the keyhole — or made one in her steel door with his sword-point according to one version — and there she was in a great marble bath disporting herself . |
| 23 | There she was in a conventional two-piece suit , fine dark wool , muted geometrical pattern in greens and unexpected straw browns , caught in at the waist — still very thin — to give the effect of a bustle , the skirt long and straight to the knee . |
| 24 | Did you see that one erm with where the , really old boy on a scrap yard , like a , and and then it was like a huge park ! |
| 25 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |
| 26 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 27 | Consequently he was in a ferocious temper when he got into his room and saw a mound of mail on his desk , half of which was addressed to Steinmark . |
| 28 | Accordingly I was at a front row table for the show when the lights went down . |
| 29 | In that case , the party whom the clause favours ( usually the seller ) will not be found to have incorporated it in the contract unless either it was in a contractual document signed by the other party or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to the attention of the other party . |
| 30 | does a lot of work down in London , he did a lot of work , well they done promotions er , and he evidently he was in a big job at , what was it in , in it ? |