Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry , I just was a bit confused . |
| 2 | ‘ Pretty stupid of me , I suppose , ’ he replied , ‘ but then I always was a sucker for a sob story . ’ |
| 3 | But he was teasing , so instead she said lightly , ‘ I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale . ’ |
| 4 | " Well , I always was a gossip , always will be , it 's in my nature , One has to come to terms with one 's little weaknesses , " she said tolerantly , as if speaking of someone else 's . |
| 5 | Toasting John Self with premixed martinis , I too was a cocktail shaker of hilarity and awe . |
| 6 | but er , which really was a waste of money it was , well it 's used a bit for tourism now |
| 7 | This view is based upon a phrase which the Empress is supposed to have uttered ‘ It 's my pretty little war ’ , which in fact she never pronounced and which indeed was a newspaper invention appearing only in 1874 . |
| 8 | Which then was a copy to your memo answer you |
| 9 | Later , at the time of the collapse of the empire , we also purchased the small er manufacturing plant in which again was a plant that I 'd started . |
| 10 | ‘ She always was a bit doolally , ’ Mary Ann said , smiling . |
| 11 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 12 | You always were a lady , were n't you . |
| 13 | I saw that the wing commander engineering , who also was a pilot ( but in those days they did an engineering course as we had no Engineering Officers , at least I do not remember any ) opened his window in the office and climbed out . |
| 14 | She really was a child . |
| 15 | Silently , as though she really were a ghost , Cassie pushed open the door to the sitting room and looked in . |
| 16 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 17 | How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ? |
| 18 | Who told you there was a prison ? ’ |
| 19 | The lady , yes , she certainly was a woman , stood barefoot on top of the white outcrop of rock above the spring . |
| 20 | Erm this morning we have er another visitor and who actually was a teacher and works at at a very senior position er heading er very interesting projects to technical location educations and I would like to er introduce you to Mr |
| 21 | No British athlete had ever done that before , not even Allan , whose best was a gold and a silver . |
| 22 | Everything else was a triviality . |
| 23 | Without self-respect , everything else was a sham . |
| 24 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 25 | ( However , in this particular case , Mrs Hohne 's transfer to the new premises resulted in both her status and pay being reduced as she could no longer hold the post of manageress because there already was a person in this position in the new premises . |
| 26 | There always was a pub here but it has been transformed . |
| 27 | There once was a plan to remove it and replace it with a television transmitting tower . |
| 28 | There once was a lady called Polly who talked to flowers . |
| 29 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |
| 30 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |