Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [conj] 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 | And I was impressed that a Harley Street gynaecologist was prepared to boil his own kettle . |
| 3 | Somehow I was relieved that a guard was with us because I thought that if there was an accident his friends might try to get him — and maybe us — out . |
| 4 | I was convinced that a small company with sound quality credentials and low overhead expenses , and with a team of highly skilled and capable engineers , could get a good portion of these smaller contracts . ’ |
| 5 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 6 | Times were not so hard for businesses then and I was grateful when a year of events raised £107,000 . |
| 7 | ‘ I was puzzled when a paper recently called me a ‘ bread head ’ . |
| 8 | I then thought of running up to the local police station , but I was worried that a train might have come . ’ |
| 9 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Margaret , you see , cos Gerry used to behave as if , his was sub-standard and a professional |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In an attempt to sway Scottish shareholders of Distillers and to influence Scottish public opinion ( which was anxious that a merger with Guinness might reduce Distillers ' involvement in Scotland ) , Guinness promised during the campaign that the ‘ largest part of our business will be Scottish-based ’ , that Scotland would be the ‘ decision-making centre ’ of the company and that Sir Thomas Risk , Governor of the Bank of Scotland , would be appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the combined group . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We describe a female patient who developed both these conditions , the treatment of which was unsatisfactory until a thymectomy was performed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was tired and a little afraid . |
| 19 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 20 | She was diabetic and a cause for concern . |
| 21 | She was German and a right pain . |
| 22 | She was apyrexial and a maculopapular rash was present on her arms . |
| 23 | Apart from dog sitting , she was free and a year later the two are still together ! |
| 24 | She was old and a snob . |
| 25 | She was looking-tired and a little sad . |
| 26 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 28 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 29 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 30 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |