Example sentences of "was [adj] a dream " in BNC.
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1 | Or was that a dream ? |
2 | Perhaps it was all a dream . |
3 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
4 | It was all a dream , or he was n't properly awake . |
5 | " It was all a dream " is the worst possible ending to a story of a nightmare by day . |
6 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
7 | But that was all a dream , which has passed ! ’ |
8 | ‘ It was all a dream . ’ |
9 | I 'll discover it was all a dream . |
10 | She wondered if this was all a dream and soon she would wake up and find they were still at Gatwick waiting to fly out to Palma . |