Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly , when young , one does tend to be annoyed by remarks such as , ‘ My grandad 's older than your dad ’ , and become increasingly frustrated by mum 's , ‘ When I was young a shilling would buy ’ lectures , but this is merely a passing phase . |
| 2 | Falconer , out of action for six months after a knee operation , said : ‘ I think I was due a goal . |
| 3 | I was awake a long time that night . |
| 4 | Before , I was such a handsome man , so sexy , so divine and so promiscuous . ’ |
| 5 | I was such a goody-goody at school it was unbelievable that I was pregnant . |
| 6 | I was such a weary girl that I bored myself . |
| 7 | I felt , wretchedly , that I was such a moral coward , such a sickening liar , that making a promise I knew I had no intention whatever of keeping was hardly any worse than what I had already done . |
| 8 | And to think I was such a fool as to let it happen when I was thirty-five ! ’ ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was such a little silly , was n't I , pouring out my precious little thoughts and fears to nice big Miguelito ! ’ |
| 10 | I was such a misery that by the end of the first week Elise asked a friend to help out in the shop , and packed me off to join him . ’ |
| 11 | I was such a party animal at the |
| 12 | While I was pregnant a young security guard used to enquire solicitously about the state of my ankles . |
| 13 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 14 | Someone was half a length behind her on her outside but Kelly sensed that she had more in hand than he did . |
| 15 | Turn-a-Round will doubtless take some interest therefore in our continuing production turning competition , which was such a success last year . |
| 16 | In 1853 he travelled to Mecca , which was such a dangerous trip for a European that he travelled as a Muslim pilgrim . |
| 17 | Their only daughter Olive followed her father to an early grave as the result of the same complaint which was such a terrible scourge during the years prior to the Second World War . |
| 18 | This fact , and the limited spread of settled land suggested in Chapter IV , do much to explain the lack of vocal protest about settlements which was such a feature of the early modern counterpart of the Roman settlement . |
| 19 | There is no licence for the sale of alcohol at today 's fairs , in an attempt to curb the drinking which was such a feature in the past . |
| 20 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 21 | The draughtsmen were by this time becoming separated from the engineers , in that specialization which was such a feature of all aspects of life in the age of science . |
| 22 | This kind of higher popularization was an aspect of the specialization which was such a feature of the nineteenth century , and since . |
| 23 | Remaisnil became the staged version of her perfected life , the culmination of the myth which was such a potent force for customer and company alike and without which the art could not flourish . |
| 24 | Which was all a pretence . |
| 25 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 26 | Cindy gave a laugh which was half a sob . |
| 27 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 28 | Lisa smiled a small smile and treated him to a taste of the kind of evasiveness of which he himself was such a master . |
| 29 | The frailty of human memory is such that it is by no means uncommon for a delegate to criticize fiercely the very rule for which he himself was responsible a year or two before ! |
| 30 | My mother was a great inspiration ; she was such a lovely jolly little lady , with precious little to be jolly about . |