Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except I was intrigued why a scarlet cord should be used . |
| 2 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |
| 3 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 4 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 5 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 6 | How come you were all up the garage last night ? |
| 7 | She was thirty-five when the machines wore her out . |
| 8 | She was thirty-three when the baby was born . |
| 9 | Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car . |
| 10 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 11 | The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises . |
| 12 | The way it was done , with absolutely no warning , was traumatic for the staff and startling for its subscribers , of whom there were well over a million . |
| 13 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 14 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 15 | The Truman administration was widely condemned for allowing the " fall " of China , although , as Secretary of State Dean Acheson pointed out , there was little more the US could do for Chiang — short of direct intervention by US forces in the civil war . |
| 16 | DURING the months of March , April and May , while at Verdun the Germans were painfully inching forward towards the summits of Le Mort Homme and Côte 304 , in the world outside there was little enough the belligerents could find of positive comfort . |
| 17 | There was three there the other day . |
| 18 | I expect they were all much the same . |
| 19 | It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at . |
| 20 | It was odd how the scar had remained all these years . |
| 21 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 22 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 23 | For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise . |
| 24 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 25 | It was all rather a relief . |
| 26 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
| 27 | ‘ It was all just a wee misunderstanding . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |
| 29 | It was all just a big adventure . |
| 30 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |