Example sentences of "was [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was uneasy — she was a lover of Pharaoh — sophisticated , mature and beautiful — I was Hagar , a servant — young , foolish and juvenile . |
| 2 | His alias was Ebrahim Ebrahimian , a name variously mis-spelled by the players , which Secord supposed to be Turkish . |
| 3 | 8 May was Ascension Day and many faithful Catholics had assembled in the Cathedral , to celebrate the day , and to pray for deliverance from the volcano . |
| 4 | Over the next few days I was in touch by letter and by phone with Eliot , and finally it was arranged , in a note dated 9 May , that I should lunch with him on Thursday 19 May , which , as he carefully specified , was Ascension Day . |
| 5 | Although the final war bulletin had been signed on 1 April 1939 , Franco did not enter the capital until 18 May , which was Ascension Day that year . |
| 6 | Nor was Charley dead , but with a ruptured spleen , damaged kidneys and a splintered back he was not likely to live long . |
| 7 | Another guest that day was Patrick Jenkin , the Social Services Secretary . |
| 8 | God , was Patrick still alive ? |
| 9 | The driver of the VW Golf was Patrick White . |
| 10 | His name , said Nicky , was Patrick Meehan , and he was a well-known and rather incompetent safe-blower , but with no record of violence . |
| 11 | " Was Patrick Lundy there tonight ? " |
| 12 | One person briefly involved with Minton in 1946 was Patrick Woodcock . |
| 13 | It was Patrick Kelly . |
| 14 | One was Patrick Grayson , managing director of Kroll Associates UK Ltd , a private investigation company . |
| 15 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
| 16 | It was Patrick 's first experience of a J-gate . |
| 17 | And I ca n't , I ca n't be sure whe whether it was Patrick Cargill or er Nicholas Parsons in the other |
| 18 | And I was , I was laughing and it , everyone was going because it was Patrick Swayze but I was still seeing Whoopie Goldberg ! |
| 19 | The minimum of diplomatic finger-pointing over Holly in return for the homecoming of the major operative that was Demyonov . |
| 20 | Was Hauser now in residence ? |
| 21 | My grandfather was Napier 's Deputy Adjutant-General . |
| 22 | Top scorer , with 26 , was McCleod , whose play improved considerably with the introduction of new players , especially Speirs . |
| 23 | The unfortunate Dorian Williams , whose cultured , distinctly upper-class accent was synonymous with commentary on the sport , was required to tell the viewers that the next contestant was Harvey Smith riding ‘ Hitachi Music Centre ’ . |
| 24 | One of the boys was Harvey . |
| 25 | It was Harvey who answered . |
| 26 | His real name was Harvey Pepper , a 23-year-old native of Montreal , who was a dead ringer for Dustin . |
| 27 | Well the suspect , th th the guy who committed the murder 's not any of the people it was Harvey Jones from the centre cos he was involved in paedophilia . |
| 28 | that was Highton you know , not Liverpool |
| 29 | The incredible thing was Luigi was happy to give him the shirt — that 's how important he was . ‘ |
| 30 | A sequel to the announcement last September of the Group 's new policy on smoking was Heartwatch co-ordinator Andrew Smart 's series of ‘ smoke-stop ’ courses . |