Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Star printer I owned was a 80-column thermal machine that was connected to an Osborne 01 CP/M machine . |
| 2 | what I lacked was a foreign accent , almond eyes , straight or springy black hair , a black skin , a muscular physique , a mind full of difficult alphabets , a sense of rhythm , a pitiful history of slavery and oppression , and a massive member — though not necessarily in that order . |
| 3 | The material that I used was a lovely heavy cream bridal fabric , chosen because it was the closest equivalent I could find to the bride 's dress — surprisingly enough , she would n't let me chop a hole in the real thing ! |
| 4 | Returning on the bus from Medenine I noticed a solitary blonde whom I assumed was a stray package tourist from one of the hotels on the west of the island . |
| 5 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 6 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 7 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 8 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 9 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 10 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 11 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 12 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 13 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 14 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 15 | One area I photographed was a huge field of sugar beet . |
| 16 | On arrival in Johannesburg , the first thing I noticed was a young , fresh , smiling face , who turned out to be the Second Secretary at the Consulate . |
| 17 | I knew that the Falkland Islands were similar to Shetland in that both were a group of treeless islands in the middle of an ocean , and I wanted to see just how wild creatures — and birds in particular — had adapted as different species in what I imagined was a similar environment . |
| 18 | All I received was a dry little bow in return . |
| 19 | For years the Government I served was a popular one with the people — but not with the British Government . |
| 20 | The first egglayer I bred was a Siamese Fighter . |
| 21 | What I needed was a solid holder that would n't let pencils bend or break , and a retainer that would expand and contract a million times . |
| 22 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 23 | After winning ‘ New Faces ’ , the first thing I needed was a musical director . |
| 24 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 25 | ‘ I started being a prime minister at the age of 53 . |
| 26 | What I desired was a grand conception , one which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature . |
| 27 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 28 | What I saw was a bewildering jigsaw puzzle of textual fragments , some of them recent , others ancient ‘ fossils ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Hulme ’ it said — though all I saw was a rubbled |
| 30 | What I saw was a beautiful country with a lovely climate ( it was summer of course ) . |