Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 2 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 3 | I know , woke up this morning she was , she was obviously cold , cat was right under the covers , snuggled right up to me and got her , her chin on me arm like that , I was asleep Justifying Nation , did you like that ? |
| 4 | She entered the trade with Truslove & Hanson in its Oxford Street branch in 1919 , and in 1935 came as my secretary when I was managing Harrods Library , which was then , with the Times , the leading large subscription library with a staff of well over 100 . |
| 5 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether other newly married men feel the same , but in those early days I was aware ofa calm satisfaction and fulfilment . |
| 7 | I was English Language Tutor on all three of the courses outlined just now . |
| 8 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 9 | I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ? |
| 10 | I was left standing open-mouthed at this hillside of ever growing chaos and movement . |
| 11 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 12 | I was afraid Mr Edgar would find Heathcliff with Catherine . |
| 13 | There was a lipless mouth , their were deep eye sockets from which gleamed the small evil , old eyes of the necromancer . |
| 14 | Manila 's public transport is based on a multitude of ‘ jeepneys ’ the originals of which were surplus US army jeeps left after the war with Japan . |
| 15 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 16 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In a hypothetical life-form with both hands of amino acid it is possible that rather than no helices being created , there would be helical molecules which were true mirror images of one another . |
| 19 | Every night the show finished at eleven ; after the Saturday performance they would have to pack the stage costumes and props carefully into skips which were large wicker baskets which could be thrown around without harm to the contents . |
| 20 | We 're selling that with all the other medals some of which were British campaign medals , some were given to him by countries like Poland because of his special friendship or good deeds |
| 21 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |
| 22 | When considering the question of natural monopoly , we found some sufficient conditions for subadditivity , one of which was decreasing ray average cost plus transray convexity . |
| 23 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 24 | He came out firmly for caution and against the Turkish adventure which was exciting Lloyd George , Churchill , Birkenhead and most of the other ardent Coalitionists . |
| 25 | By 1830 , the mill had passed from the Clissold family and was being run by Evans , Robson and Severs , who were London-based textile merchants . |
| 26 | Almost half the girls married in their teens and who were occupying council houses in their mid-20s had conceived their first birth before marriage ( 47 per cent ) , compared to 30 per cent of owner-occupiers , 14 per cent renting privately , and 9 per cent who were still living with parents ( Kiernan 1980b ) . |
| 27 | Now orders came from and Sons the printers who were great target printers , and are still today the great target printer . |
| 28 | Thame , Oxfordshire , belonged to the Bishops of Lincoln who were great town planners . |
| 29 | It was a new start-up company with proprietors who were highly-qualified quantity surveyors and had well-paid previous posts — one a managing director , another a senior partner — in one of the UK 's major quantity surveying practices . |
| 30 | A survey has been made of the twenty-six judges who were active Law Lords during the period 1952–68 together with two Lord Chief Justices , two Masters of the Rolls and one president of what was then the Probate , Divorce and Admiralty Division . |