Example sentences of "[pron] was a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was a forces child , ’ he explained . |
| 2 | At the time er when I was a firearms instructor er that was the job that I did every day I went to work either firearms training or firearms operations . |
| 3 | I do n't think he thought I was a malai informer . |
| 4 | I had found her when I was a Weapons Instructor at the Royal Marines ' Lympstone camp in Devon . |
| 5 | Er in December nineteen eighty eight er I was a police constable , I was stationed at I was er a firearms instructor in the operations department and also a tactical advisor . |
| 6 | I was a police officer erm attached or er on a permanent basis with the operations support unit which we were based in er . |
| 7 | Then coming on to the end of Street next door was a milliners , now that nobody knows what they are today Miss the name was and then coming across Street to the other side was which was a drapers , and next coming down was Smiths the butcher 's shop , and next to that was the grocers , following on down there was the ironmonger , then there was the newspaper , and you come down to the White Hart erm then we come to the White Hart |
| 8 | Which was a bakers and confectioners , they used to er bake at the , they got the er the bakehouse at the back and they used to make confectionery and high class bread . |
| 9 | Er where I ended up in Barracks which was a guards barrage barracks near . |
| 10 | She was a mantri , a person who knew certain magic incantations , and was reputed to be able to cure sick animals . |
| 11 | She was a forceps delivery which found more bearable than dear , little 's Caesarean . |
| 12 | She was a women 's libber really , because she said they 'd tried to stop the pit brow lasses , but it never came off . " |
| 13 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 14 | He had a father who was a police sergeant and always knew everything first . |
| 15 | There was a poisons unit at Charing Cross Hospital , was n't there ? |
| 16 | ‘ Several moments ago I asked you why you thought there was a drugs ring operating in the club , ’ she said . |
| 17 | It 's Lord Blandford 's second trip to Pentonville … there was a drugs sentence in 1986 … and two years ago he was sent to Oxford prison for driving offences . |
| 18 | Manchester , Liverpool do n't get on very well and there was a drugs problem , a very bad drugs problem er which had been brought in from their normal way of life outside . |
| 19 | And let me tell you , if there was a women 's demonstration to protest against the machismo of the men in our country , I 'd be right there in the front ranks ! |
| 20 | There were ten hangings at Oxford from 1892 to 1952 , and two hundred years ago there was a women 's prison next door . |
| 21 | Oh yes they made it Miss has just died erm then coming down there was the Post Office with old Pa and the , then the Miss , they used to keep the Post Office , then there was er well there was a gents outfitters and then there was a beautiful shop I always used to think , it was called , another , but it was confectioners , but it was all most delightful old oldy-worldy sort of shop and my mother often used to go in there then you 'd |
| 22 | er , there was , there was a criteria to meet before anyone was er permitted to move in it |
| 23 | Instead of retracing our steps , we dropped down into An Lairig , the glen between the ridge and the deceitful Beinn a' Chlachair , mainly because Mr OS map assured us with a neat dotted line that there was a stalkers , path there . |
| 24 | Inside there was a portcullis of some dark metal . |
| 25 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 26 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 27 | More important , there was a miners ' strike which resulted in the three-day week , comprehensive power cuts and enormous disruption . |
| 28 | Every fifty years there was a redistributions of land back to the original owners . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend will know that there was a real-terms increase in the science and technology budget this year , a point that has been readily acknowledged by scientists up and down the country . |
| 30 | There was a police car slewed into the kerb , lights still flashing , doors open , empty . |