Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course I was the only one that was single . |
| 2 | Sometimes for many months I was the only white person for hundreds of miles . |
| 3 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 4 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 5 | Whenever the papers wanted a quote they came to me , when the local radio wanted an interview I was the spokesperson . |
| 6 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 7 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 8 | Through his instruction he was partly responsible for the 1649 Act Concerning Religion which was the earliest legislation in the English-speaking world that explicitly guaranteed toleration to all Christians . |
| 9 | In short , during the past four hundred years the lemon has become , in cooking , the condiment which has largely replaced the vinegar , the verjuice ( preserved juice of green grapes ) , the pomegranate juice , the bitter orange juice , the mustard and wine compounds which were the acidifiers poured so freely into the cooking pots of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe . |
| 10 | Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area . |
| 11 | Similar protests were made by Japan , France and the United Kingdom , the last-named making the additional point that the uniformity which was the hope of the authors of the Convention would be frustrated if it were subject to the inconsistencies between the service rules of 50 different States . |
| 12 | Strabo himself was the apologist . |
| 13 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 14 | Roger Wooton : ‘ David Bowie was the resident singer/ song writer — a sort of folk-pop singer/ song writer and we were a sort of rock/acoustic band — flute , violin , acoustic guitars and female vocalist , doing sets each week at the club which was the start of our career . |
| 15 | on the date of import into the United Kingdom the car which was the subject of the total loss settlement would have been exempt from value added tax and car tax |
| 16 | the amount of such value added tax and car tax shall be calculated on the purchase price of the car which was the subject of the total loss settlement |
| 17 | The little boy 's search had been successful , for now he brandished the scarlet sports car which was the prize of his collection . |
| 18 | The Wickhams live in the clockhouse which was the old brewery and laundry for the big house opposite . |
| 19 | Togliatti 's apparent cold indifference to the fate of his fellow countrymen shocked many and seemed likely to damage the electoral chances of the PDS and the PRC , the two parties which were the direct successors of the PCI . |
| 20 | Indeed Butzer is a geographer who has made great contributions in defining a field of Pleistocene Geography which was the term used as a subtitle for his book on Environment and Archaeology first published in 1964 . |
| 21 | And it was going downhill over the hard packed snow which was the worst bit , with me acting as a brake , hauling on a rope to keep the sledge from running forward into the horse 's heels . |
| 22 | One must remember that it was specifically this issue of clerical power over schools which was the nub of the controversy in the 1900–14 period . |
| 23 | Beside the boat-house a jetty thrust out into the water , and from this a weedy , once-gravelled path led along above the beach to the stone archway which was the garden gate of Taigh na Tuir . |
| 24 | Again he saw the car signalling , signalling to turn right into Via Mazzetta which was the route south out of the city . |
| 25 | Staff facilities at OBEX included a social club and leisure complex which were the envy of many other companies in the area . |
| 26 | Nobody would be capable of identifying the paragraph as words which were the equivalent of a man 's post-coital sadness or silence . |
| 27 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 28 | The tail bones were huge , supple and weighty , The base of the tail had large bony flanges which were the anchor-point for immensely strong tail muscles . |
| 29 | There is a Titanic bear based on a teddy which survived that disaster in 1912 and a Mister Whoppit bear which was the only object to re-surface when Donald Campbell 's boat disintegrated while he was trying to break the world water speed record on Lake Coniston in 1967 . |
| 30 | The analysis is usually based on the strict modernism which was the ideology of the professions involved , and is epitomized in comments such as ‘ we seem to find that the aesthetics of an industrial product will take care of themselves automatically after we have provided a balance between function , simplicity and utility ’ ( Bayley 1979 : 71 ) . |