Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I weighed 10 stone before I was nine months old ; by 14 months I was 15 stone and six feet tall standing on my back legs . |
| 2 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 3 | For many centuries it was common form for a bishop to address a presbyter as ‘ fellow-presbyter ’ . |
| 4 | For Seldes it was contemporary drama that had been to blame , for it had encouraged the young movie industry to take ‘ the slice of life ’ as its subject-matter . |
| 5 | when you went shopping you could shop everywhere and a quarter of tea it was that price every shop , there was no competitiveness about it |
| 6 | So developed did the cult of personality in Northern Nigeria become that even in dealing with rude and warlike pagans it was bad form to stoop to securing their acquiescence in the will of the government by resort to force . |
| 7 | Like most engineering projects , it may have looked good on paper , but in practice it was another thing entirely . |
| 8 | After a time at Wells Theological College he was ordained deacon in 1877 and became his father 's curate at St John 's church , Bishop 's Hull , near Taunton . |
| 9 | By the time they entered the harbour it was high tide and the launch , with the Wheel riding her stern , lay almost level with the quay . |
| 10 | Last night had been wonderful ; but then , every time her body played host to his thick prick it was sheer heaven . |
| 11 | What an absolute pig he was this evening . |
| 12 | ‘ Immediately after the marathon it was local election time and I was on the move constantly . |
| 13 | Boxing was the only sport I was any good at , but I often wondered , sitting with gloves on waiting for the fight before mine to end , why on earth I did it . |
| 14 | Maria Luisa is n't the gullible little girl she was last year in Seville . |
| 15 | I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing . |
| 16 | Were you thinking that broadcasting it was another piece of the pattern ? ’ |
| 17 | Course eventually the , I mean , there was er there was Sergeant who was a butcher out the High Street there was Alf was a barber out of the High Street there was er Frank , Frank he was another butcher out of the High Street there was er miners er teachers , I mean there was quite a mixture of occupations in , in the , in the Home Guard . |
| 18 | It was the first time in two decades that a British bike was beating the Japanese and for British biking enthusiasts it was stirring stuff . |
| 19 | For much of the past two decades it was Square City , the quaint , eccentric and often decidedly sick man of rock . |
| 20 | In addition she was honorary treasurer of the WVS Services Club from 1941 to 1945 . |
| 21 | Bill recalls that ‘ even on our honeymoon in Norfolk she was busy buying pieces of furniture ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether other newly married men feel the same , but in those early days I was aware ofa calm satisfaction and fulfilment . |
| 23 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 24 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 25 | Hotspur wheeled to keep touch with him , pleased by the ready retort , but his impetus had swept them apart , and from that moment it was hand-to-hand work with whoever was cast up at him , horsed or afoot , until he could find room enough to choose his man and use a lance again . |
| 26 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |
| 27 | Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them . |
| 28 | With a catamaran it was instant acceleration that dampened the force of the wind . |
| 29 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 30 | Let him see I 'm no longer the pushover I was last night ! |