Example sentences of "[pers pn] really [was/were] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we made our way to the palace , I began to feel that I really was the King of Ruritania , with Marshal Strakencz , the head of the army , on my right and old Sapt on my left . |
| 2 | She really was a child . |
| 3 | Silently , as though she really were a ghost , Cassie pushed open the door to the sitting room and looked in . |
| 4 | ‘ Only if you really were an alcoholic , you wouldn't 've told me . ’ |
| 5 | She says we really were the B-team . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 8 | And he really was a character . |
| 9 | Some of them poked him with sticks to see if he really was a savage and threw books shouting , ‘ Build us a tower . |
| 10 | He really was a baby and a half , this one ! |
| 11 | Perhaps he really was a geologist . |
| 12 | Nick Pitt 's description helps one understand why his appeal was not confined to blacks : ‘ clean , well spoken [ he really was a choirboy ] , a political eunuch , black but not really black , cuddly ’ ( Sunday Times , 28 June 1981 , p.30 ) . |
| 13 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 14 | It really was a bit much , she thought , to leave it until now to make trouble about the course . |
| 15 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 16 | It really was a dream ticket for women . |
| 17 | When we got there it really was a mess but services had come even from West Chelsea and we had to go back in case any of our unexploded bombs went off and we were needed nearer the river . |
| 18 | It really was a baptism by fire ! ’ |
| 19 | Yes , it really was a question of surviving . |
| 20 | If it really was a bomb , unzipping the cover would almost certainly trip a booby trap . |
| 21 | In my case it really was a form of celestial cannon ball . |
| 22 | And er so it really was a hand to mouth existence and going without . |
| 23 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 24 | If they do query it , cos I mean erm it really was a disgrace and I I 'm pretty tolerant . |
| 25 | About four feet in diameter , it really was a beauty and always being borrowed by my friends , something I never objected to , for the hoop was virtually unbreakable . |
| 26 | No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played . |
| 27 | After all that trouble , it really was a shame the end product was such utter rubbish . |
| 28 | I it really was an adventure it was really was an adventure . |
| 29 | And as I looked at Jimmy Boyce , ex-industrial tiler , ex-foundry worker , ex-redundant foundry worker , I realised that it really was the law of the jungle here tonight . |
| 30 | He told me about it , but … well , I wanted to see whether it really was the kind of thing I wanted . ’ |