Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] a [noun] " 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 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 . ’ |
| 4 | And to think I was such a fool as to let it happen when I was thirty-five ! ’ ’ |
| 5 | I was such a party animal at the |
| 6 | Someone was half a length behind her on her outside but Kelly sensed that she had more in hand than he did . |
| 7 | And not just the C&P quality Awards which were such a success in their inaugural year . |
| 8 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 9 | It was largely this greater efficacy in the treatment of epidemic infections which were such a scourge in those days that allowed homoeopathy to spread so quickly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This kind of higher popularization was an aspect of the specialization which was such a feature of the nineteenth century , and since . |
| 14 | Turn-a-Round will doubtless take some interest therefore in our continuing production turning competition , which was such a success last year . |
| 15 | Which was all a pretence . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Cindy gave a laugh which was half a sob . |
| 19 | Lisa smiled a small smile and treated him to a taste of the kind of evasiveness of which he himself was such a master . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | The association with the stigma of poor relief remained , however , and to a very large extent these hospitals became the home for the long-stay patients and the elderly who were such a drain on the finances of the voluntary hospitals . |
| 22 | Anyway , they would fall in love with these Counts who were ten a penny and even pay for their drinks . |
| 23 | We need new blood , new talent ( Kelly looked fine to me ) and not rely on players who were suspect a couple of years ago . |
| 24 | You were all a bit concerned I suppose ? |
| 25 | You were icy a while back . |
| 26 | For if you were such a brain , then , provided that the scientist is successful , nothing in your experience could possibly reveal that you were ; for your experience is ex hypothesi identical with that of something which is not a brain in a vat . |
| 27 | Be brave , she reminded herself , and kept her features composed when , ‘ Thank you , Fabia , ’ Ven began , and , seeming encouraged that she had stayed , ‘ To explain more fully why I found it necessary to be so brutal when you were such a delight … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I never knew you were such a gossip , Mother , ’ Leith teased . |
| 29 | Well you were hungry a way down there but you would make good child . |
| 30 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |