Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly , when young , one does tend to be annoyed by remarks such as , ‘ My grandad 's older than your dad ’ , and become increasingly frustrated by mum 's , ‘ When I was young a shilling would buy ’ lectures , but this is merely a passing phase . |
| 2 | Falconer , out of action for six months after a knee operation , said : ‘ I think I was due a goal . |
| 3 | You were icy a while back . |
| 4 | Well you were hungry a way down there but you would make good child . |
| 5 | At least the Queen was still on the throne and nothing changed there , even though she was long a widow . |
| 6 | Although she was due a week later in Glasgow , I did not go there . |
| 7 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 8 | Somewhere in the house she was sure a handle was turned quietly , a door was opened and then closed again with care . |
| 9 | And it was bigger and it was shinier and er so she was happy a fortnight later anyway . |
| 10 | ‘ She was fine a minute ago . |
| 11 | She was silent a moment , thinking of Oreste and her journey to England and the future of her family and how it rested largely at the moment on Mr Landor 's £30 a year . |
| 12 | She was silent a moment , thoughtful , and knew he was thinking the same thing . |
| 13 | He used to come and collect that , and er But er the union well we were alright A chap named he was the secretary and er and Jack he was the president and me Dad were on the committee , there were several of on the committee . |
| 14 | Yeah , they 've bought us them out and they were dirty a minute ago so I 'm putting them back . |
| 15 | And they were popular a lot of people bought them |
| 16 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 17 | It was relieved a bit when Clark squared the match with a birdie on the 16th and transformed altogether when the Americans both pushed their approaches to the long 17th hole to lose that as well . |
| 18 | It was obvious a storm was coming in . |
| 19 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 20 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 21 | Yes , it was true a woman must marry any man who asks her on Remembering Night — by order of the Star Council . |
| 22 | Nora was not nearly so impressed by that sort of thing as her cousin but she admitted to herself that it was unlikely a man from such a background would be deceiving Constance . |
| 23 | Hogg added it was likely a draw would be made to determine the order of matches in the Scottish inter-district championship , while the following programme has been devised for the Scottish districts v Irish provinces contest : |
| 24 | He was thoughtful a moment . |
| 25 | This week , he was relief-managing a pub in Rotherham and I 'd arranged to drive over to see him after 11 p.m . |
| 26 | Watson ended by firmly endorsing the power of genetics to improve the human condition ; a lot of people will dislike it , he added , but when he was young a lot of people had disliked Roosevelt — so what ? |
| 27 | Rudolf Seiters , head of the West German chancellery , who played a big role in the deals to ship more than 14,000 from Warsaw and Prague to the West in special trains , said he was confident a solution will be found for them too . |
| 28 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 29 | He was silent a moment . |
| 30 | He was silent a moment , as if something troubled him . |