Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were others , I pointed out , who might wish Ralemberg 's death and I was their pathetic dupe . |
| 2 | She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh , what a struggle she had to show ii . |
| 3 | Whatever her feelings towards her family , she was my reluctant hostess and I was her reluctant guest . |
| 4 | You see , I was only nineteen and you were my only sister , and we had always been pals . |
| 5 | I was trying to solve a mystery , and you were my prime suspect . |
| 6 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 7 | And who was she these days ? |
| 8 | She was small and fair like her name , shy like her mother , and his favourite child , dearer even than Thomas , for daughters are more fragile and vulnerable than sons , and she was his first daughter . |
| 9 | And there were plenty more deals . |
| 10 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
| 11 | Diana had been in love with Prince Charles for several years , since their first meeting when she was a sixteen-year-old home from school for half-term and he was her elder sister 's boyfriend . |
| 12 | They were quite good days because I knew absolutely nothing about the music business , being at school , and he was my first boy friend who was n't upper class . |
| 13 | ‘ They beat us twice last season , and he was our greatest problem both times . |
| 14 | It is certainly amongst the oldest of the European herbs , and it was its very pungency that made it popular with the palates of our tougher ancestors . |
| 15 | Wigan rugby league , they do a very good physio now and he was saying when he was Leigh , he was with Leigh rugby league first of all , they had players in their second team and it was their sole intention |
| 16 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 17 | The Berkeley Dress Show is traditionally the start of the ‘ season ’ and it was their first appearance as debutantes , a social duty nowadays combined with A-levels and university entrance . |
| 18 | The British were involved with them through us and it was their advanced work on breaking cyphers that enabled the ring to establish such a great record . |
| 19 | They saw their relationships with the school very much in terms of an individual one , and it was their own child that was the important thing . |
| 20 | Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage . |
| 21 | She was just in for a fine and it was her first time . |
| 22 | She did n't have the lead but it was still a big part and it was her first time on the stage since the scandal . |
| 23 | And it was her second car that she 'd ever had sort of thing . |
| 24 | And it was her fellow Australians who plunged in the knives with most relish . |
| 25 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 26 | When she first began to have coaching in horsemanship , she was obsessed with her progress and it was her main topic of conversation whenever Stephen joined them for dinner . |
| 27 | There had been a room full of people , and she knew she was dead and it was her own funeral . |
| 28 | And the next night the backdrop was ‘ A Night in Spain ’ , and there was Stella II , it was his very first night , all done up in black and gold lace with an underskirt of violent red , a red Elizabeth the First wig for some reason and a real red rose , it was sensational , and it was his first night too , Stella II doing ‘ Te Amo ’ till the tears ran down his face . |
| 29 | And it was his first parish . |
| 30 | Euripides was its last great figure , and it was his innovating genius that destroyed it — ( myth , music and all ) . |