Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 2 | Spice and fruit breads , similar to hot cross buns , were typical Elizabethan Lenten fare . |
| 3 | ‘ Until we all got the news yesterday , we were all Den O'Neil 's children . |
| 4 | We were happy helping Mrs Taylor tidy up . |
| 5 | Yet the king-duke began to insist from the 1270s onwards that all allods were sub posse et dominio … regis et ducis ( ‘ under the power and dominion of the king-duke ’ ) . |
| 6 | Distillery were missing striker Tom Cleland whose wife was ill . |
| 7 | Among those who had brushes with the law were former Attorney General Ed Meese , White House chief of staff Michael Deaver , the Housing and Urban Development Secretary ( the ‘ Dud from HUD ’ ) Samuel Pierce and aide Lyn Nofziger . |
| 8 | With ANC president Oliver Tambo undergoing prolonged medical treatment ( in connection with which he had travelled to Sweden on Jan. 3 ) , the senior Lusaka-based ANC leaders were general secretary Alfred Nzo , as acting president , and Chris Hani , the chief of general staff of the ANC military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe . |
| 9 | Other newcomers were amateur winger Ivan Sharpe from Derby County , who worked in a newspaper office , and centre-half Harry Peart , 23 , from neighbours Bradford City , who excelled at turning defence quickly into attack with a well-placed header . |
| 10 | When further penalties were proposed Secretary John Thurloe [ q.v. ] , for political ( and perhaps personal ) reasons , spoke up for him , pressing — ironically in view of Boteler 's attitude in the Nayler trial — that he should be heard before sentence . |
| 11 | Two pork pies and a can of Coke each but not the apples which were imported Granny Smiths and bruised , and anyway they had strawberries . |
| 12 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 13 | I used to be eleven stone , when I was eighteen , nineteen I was eleven stone Hayle . |
| 14 | The end of that talk was that Farmer Olinton said he 'd be only too pleased for the Brownies to use his loft for Pack Meetings , and if Miss Truscott would call on him they 'd arrange the whole thing . |
| 15 | It was that Southeast Asia was ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin ’ . |
| 16 | In third spot was that man John Hall again , this time with a shot of M.E.R. Car crossing Laxey Viaduct . |
| 17 | The major difference was that north Korea evolved along wholly different lines and that Korea was divided into two states . |
| 18 | Now there was that fellow Roberts . |
| 19 | Everton 's crisp passing bewildered Tottenham , and it was that fellow Beardsley running the show . |
| 20 | There was that thing Mrs Hollidaye said , about how each person could only be brave in their own way and there was n't room on earth for everybody to be a hero . |
| 21 | ‘ What was that routine Lewis used to do ? |
| 22 | One of them , certainly , was Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze , who had previously been party first secretary in Georgia . |
| 23 | An unexpected retention in the Cabinet was Foreign Minister Carlos Iturralde Ballivián who had been widely criticized for his conduct of diplomacy within the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , for the handling of border disputes with Chile and for his failure to secure Bolivian membership of the Mercosur common market with Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 24 | Byers Green was designated category D. Peggy Hutchinson objected and fought and saved it from demolition . |
| 25 | In his view it was high time ASEAN made a serious study of proclaiming Southeast Asia a nuclear-free zone as a first step towards implementing the zone concept . |
| 26 | One of them was British director John Dexter , who was casting Peter Shaffer 's The Royal Hunt of the Sun , to be performed at ANTA in October 1965 . |
| 27 | Watching the complex surgery was British surgeon Adrian Bianchi who treated Laura , of Eccles , Manchester . |
| 28 | Leading the protest was mini-skip operator Bob Morris who said much of the damage caused in Marl Drive and other streets could have been avoided had warnings about the nearby River Wyddan been heeded . |
| 29 | In Howards ' Way Christien 's father Tony played wealthy Charles Frere and Tracey was headstrong yachtswoman Lynne Howard . |
| 30 | One of the girls I taught was this girl Hilda Syms , and she got a crush on me . |