Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent had told him to keep it ; whether they had been on board or not , he would have spent the afternoon on the reef — having them along was a pleasure . |
| 2 | The lady who took me in was a widow with a son of about my age who hardly ever spoke . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , I just was a bit confused . |
| 4 | ‘ Pretty stupid of me , I suppose , ’ he replied , ‘ but then I always was a sucker for a sob story . ’ |
| 5 | But he was teasing , so instead she said lightly , ‘ I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale . ’ |
| 6 | " Well , I always was a gossip , always will be , it 's in my nature , One has to come to terms with one 's little weaknesses , " she said tolerantly , as if speaking of someone else 's . |
| 7 | Toasting John Self with premixed martinis , I too was a cocktail shaker of hilarity and awe . |
| 8 | ‘ She always was a bit doolally , ’ Mary Ann said , smiling . |
| 9 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 10 | You always were a lady , were n't you . |
| 11 | She really was a child . |
| 12 | Silently , as though she really were a ghost , Cassie pushed open the door to the sitting room and looked in . |
| 13 | How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ? |
| 14 | Who told you there was a prison ? ’ |
| 15 | The lady , yes , she certainly was a woman , stood barefoot on top of the white outcrop of rock above the spring . |
| 16 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 17 | Er and erm I used to put it in this and go to out into the mess room outside where they there was a cook and it was a very grand name for a person you know , a cook . |
| 18 | I mean they there was a fact that they knew you were unemployed er or was n't in any s You were yours yourself a target . |
| 19 | To dance with him again was a prize she 'd sell her soul for , and tonight , here at the party , would be her only chance ever . |
| 20 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 21 | Like Gordon and Henry Lawrence before him , Lugard was revered as a soldier-saint ; like them there was a glory about his head which cast its light on all he did . |
| 22 | The words were bathetic but behind them there was a despair frightening in its intensity . |
| 23 | A few became aware of specific disadvantages suffered by women in a sex-segregated labour market and within their unions : for them there was a dawning of gender consciousness . |
| 24 | Amongst them there was a need to make sense of ones experience through the work , and a desire to communicate this to others . |
| 25 | Without them there was a gulf between her and every other thing . |
| 26 | ‘ Mind you , he always was a bit unpredictable , ’ he murmured . |
| 27 | He always was a bit sentimental , always the sensitive one , the bright one ; until his nasty experience everybody was sure he would go far . |
| 28 | He always was a game old dog . |
| 29 | It always was a pipe-dream . |
| 30 | It always was a chapel , of course , in the days of the Carterons and the Applebys . ’ |