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 .
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