Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's working very hard I mean , wh yesterday she was here at six o'clock , so I was long home and Wendy rang from here and she was still here . |
| 2 | So I was half way there then was n't I |
| 3 | So I were ten stone three . |
| 4 | Perhaps she was confusing Massis — as he referred to Great Ararat — with the volcano far to the south which the Turks called Sippan Dagh . |
| 5 | ‘ Defensively we were pretty sound , and only had a couple of lapses . ’ |
| 6 | The set of four that we sent so they were fifteen pound in there . |
| 7 | There are various exceptions erm and there have been two or three in recent years , but it therefore meant that they were fair game for saying anything so they were fair game for a very sensational headline because there was very little chance of recrimination . |
| 8 | The site made use of the Mount Royal tunnel and of the considerable falling away of the land , so that although the platforms were below the station building , none the less they were above ground . |
| 9 | She hurt so much it was physical pain , like a knife twisting backwards and forwards . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was pure mischief in me . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was afraid of the responsibility , or perhaps it was pure selfishness . |
| 12 | Yet before them … perhaps it was pure cowardice , it is not for me to say . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was that paradox — more than any other aspect of its nature — which would finally undo it . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps it was that bump we went over , ’ said Bob hesitantly . |
| 16 | Who was attacking it ? perhaps it was that letter from that bastard up in town . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was just procrastination . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |
| 21 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was this atmosphere , coupled with Max Jacob 's fierce Catholicism , that led Modigliani to seek out his roots . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was more evidence of a Celtic past . |
| 24 | But perhaps he was long content for the profitable plundering of England to continue indefinitely . |
| 25 | So it was that night at Hampton Court . |
| 26 | So it was all nonsense , was it ? |
| 27 | Yes , well cos you see , I mean , you see you begin life as erm your , your shop was the corner shop erm you know the shop was the Co-op and of course erm we always went each week , my brother and I , er to the Co-op for the groceries you see , so it was all Co-op . |
| 28 | So it was one day you made the decision and you stuck with it ? |
| 29 | I graduated in fifty-seven so it was one year 's in fifty-eight . |
| 30 | Even so it was common practice ( and indeed still is ) to crimp with one 's teeth ! |