Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One after another , men failed in their attempts to drive the nails , usually succeeding in bending them , so I was proud when Dad , using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil , gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board . |
| 2 | I was pleased as punch when yer farvver came 'ome an' told me Joe Maitland 'ad offered 'im that job . |
| 3 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 4 | The location of European industry was dictated partly by the availability of capital and markets , which meant that countries which were rich before industrialization tended to become richer , and partly by the deposits of the raw materials , coal and iron . |
| 5 | Many of the victims were in poor health and , in some cases , had been incarcerated by the police on the assumption that they were drunk when in fact they were suffering from diseases which were life-threatening when treatment was withheld . |
| 6 | Standing on the draining board was an old , chipped saucer containing a slab of soap which was yellow as cheese and rock hard , its surface covered in deep cracks and giving the appearance of having been there for ever . |
| 7 | He called it vitamin 51B , which was unfortunate because proof of its vitamin status was never found and that raised the hackles of the regulatory authorities in the US . |
| 8 | You could not be quite sure where the Tree part ended and the Human part began , although nobody was sure if Tree Spirits possessed any Human blood . |
| 9 | Underneath all the leatherado , she was shy as hell and pleased as Punch with Dionne . |
| 10 | She was good as gold ; I do n't know what he would 've done without her ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ One minute she was right as rain . |
| 12 | She was pleased when Marguerite invited her to help with the evening meal . |
| 13 | ‘ Never mind , anyway , she was a German actress , if that 's what you want to call it , and she was hard as iron . |
| 14 | A stretched , tight , utterly unexpected pain which tensed every muscle in her body , until she was rigid as steel beneath him . |
| 15 | All in all , she was glad when morning came . |
| 16 | The rule is that any decision may be cited to a court provided that it is reported by a member of the Bar who was present when judgment was delivered . |
| 17 | Neither patient who was negative before transplantation developed anti-HC Ab after transplantation . |
| 18 | Mr Wilson-Brown , who opened the first computerised perchery barn with piped radio three months ago , said yesterday : ‘ We were concerned when production fell and realised that this was because the hens did not like the endless election news , comment and argument . |
| 19 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |
| 20 | These black clouds were formed of insects called cockchafers , or " flying bugs " , as the English called them ; they were black as pitch and quite harmless , but with a sickening odour which they lent to anything they touched . |
| 21 | They were active as railway architects , and the stations on the main line between Newcastle and Berwick-on-Tweed , commissioned by George Hudson [ q.v. ] in 1846 — ‘ Fine , handsome buildings … more like the villas raised by retired tradesmen than residences for railway officers ’ — are said to have been by him . |
| 22 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 23 | The world about him was white as death . |
| 24 | It was unclear where responsibility for child-minders , registration of playgroups , etc. would rest in the new organisation , but it was possible that the new provisions in the Children Bill going through parliament would allow for those services to be provided through education departments . |
| 25 | I grew up in Lewisham , South East London , and it was awful because Dad was a bricklayer , and if the weather was bad , he did n't work . |
| 26 | It was important because subterfuge meant deception , and he had denied deceiving the Yugoslavs . |
| 27 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 28 | Like the poppies in Flanders it was red as blood . |
| 29 | Everybody in the embassy thought it was funny as hell , but he was pissed with it . |
| 30 | It was unusual because specialist nurses did much of the doctors ' work . |