Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was disappointed when a move to the club fell through earlier in the season because I believe my style would be suited to the English game . |
| 2 | Times were not so hard for businesses then and I was grateful when a year of events raised £107,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ I was puzzled when a paper recently called me a ‘ bread head ’ . |
| 4 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 5 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 6 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 7 | We describe a female patient who developed both these conditions , the treatment of which was unsatisfactory until a thymectomy was performed . |
| 8 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 9 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 10 | There is nothing in the later history of this laconic diarist ( who was my maternal grandmother ) that would suggest that she was other than a normal ‘ teenager ’ of her time . |
| 11 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 12 | He or she was poorest when a child when the maternal family had most dependents , in early middle life after marriage and the arrival of young children and again in old age . |
| 13 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |
| 14 | But it was she who was surprised when a man 's voice said explosively , ‘ What the hell are you doing here ? ’ |
| 15 | Next to Perdita rode Mike Waterlane on Dopey , a deceptively sleepy-looking pony , who was faster than a Ferrari and nipped all the opposition ponies in the line-out . |
| 16 | Yer was pretty as a picture an' I said ter meself straight away , ‘ Fred ’ , I ses , ‘ this 'ere little lady is gon na be good fer yer business . ’ |
| 17 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 18 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 19 | It 's annoying and yet it was better than a p |
| 20 | It was blacker than a coal heaver 's codpiece in a Blitz blackout . |
| 21 | It was worse than a balls-up . |
| 22 | It was worse than a mountain — it was a maze ; and how intricate its twists I soon discovered . |
| 23 | It was uncertain whether a ballot in 1984 would obtain the needed support , and so Scargill developed an alternative strategy to achieve a national strike without calling one . |
| 24 | Nobody pretended that it was other than a one-way process . |
| 25 | She was aware of her body , realising that it was taut as a lute string with anticipation . |
| 26 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 27 | It was unfortunate when a zoo lost an eagle , so why did he feel so pleased about it ? |
| 28 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 29 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 30 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |