Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 2 | With deep blue eyes and springy fair hair , the athletic Dane would be the answer to many a maiden 's prayer , yet while Ashley was grateful to have him as a friend and business associate she had no inclination for their relationship to deepen . |
| 3 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 4 | One said it was pointless to put him on a waiting list , but letters from a grain merchant 's and from Littlewood 's Pools promised to file his application and interview him when he returned home . |
| 5 | As though you know erm after all head known all about it this is the to himself and by doing that then abbreviated then , that 's when the reader was supposed to take it as a thought process rather than a |
| 6 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 7 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 8 | On those occasions when June was unable to accompany him to a meeting or activity , David would always ensure that she and Judith were alright and never failed to keep in touch . |
| 9 | He donated the Lateran Palace to the Bishop of Rome , and Rome was able to use it as a means of establishing supremacy over rival centres of Christian authority in Alexandria and Antioch . |
| 10 | ‘ He was able to introduce her to a lot of people but her real ambition is to be a movie star , not an actress on the stage . |
| 11 | But I was able to transfer it onto a separate system and compile that and produce the lexicon there . |
| 12 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 13 | Having anticipated this , Maria was able to meet it with a degree of control . |
| 14 | Ianthe did not think of asking John to accompany her , because it was difficult to imagine him in a church . |
| 15 | The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance . |
| 16 | Toby , next morning , was inclined to regard it as a great victory . |
| 17 | Leading lady Julia Roberts was keen to make it with a British actor , namely Last Of The Mohicans Daniel Day Lewis , but is reluctant to go ahead with the replacement suggested by producer 's Universal , her former boyfriend Jason Patric . |
| 18 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |