Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
2 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
3 | Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car . |
4 | Now one of the things that was on the you know there was the great Radio City Music Hall . |
5 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
6 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
7 | I know it was the last straw of many . |
8 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
9 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
10 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
11 | I guess I was the first person to develop the idea of the modular system : ie. everything from the preamp to the power amp was modular . |
12 | I suppose it was the poor tax payer ? |
13 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
14 | I believe he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to live forever . |
15 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
16 | Police believe it was the same man . |
17 | And they reckon it was the best class of of er Douglas fir they ever had . |
18 | My brother reckons it was Beeney 's fault for not coming off his line but I reckon it was the two centre halfs again . |
19 | I reckon it was the hardest job next to coal-mining . |
20 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
21 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
22 | Once again , we ask what was the French response ? |
23 | We have only to consider what happened to East Germany and ask what was the underlying reason for secession from the Warsaw pact and reunification with West Germany . |
24 | That 's right and I believe , well I think he was the first goalkeeper to throw the ball out . |
25 | I think it was the other way round , He was telling me to get back to p H and stop writing fiction . |
26 | I think it was the first time you really spoke to me . |
27 | I think it was the following morning after the doctor talked to him . |
28 | I think it was the same drive that led me to invent a series of very complicated games with another school friend , Roger Ferneyhough . |
29 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
30 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |