Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course I was the only one that was single . |
| 2 | By the end of the afternoon I was a nervous wreck . |
| 3 | But once at university I was an apt student . |
| 4 | In your mind I was a scarlet woman and could be nothing else . |
| 5 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 6 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 7 | Although quiet and demure in her first term she was no goody goody . |
| 8 | Among the many shocks being delivered by the declining years of the twentieth century is that of discovering , after decades of thinking we were the true moderns , how modern they could already be at the other end of the century . |
| 9 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 10 | To a lawyer it was an unusual and dangerous kind of will . |
| 11 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 12 | I once watched a film on the telly it was a pretty crap film really ! |
| 13 | In practice it was a straightforward piece of CIA terrorism designed to overthrow by force a legitimately elected government that America did not like . |
| 14 | Eh yeah Rick 's er , Rick 's car broke down you know and , and van broke down and somebody he , he , he lived in Clifton and worked at Radcliff on Trend and somebody says to him oh you can borrow our car it was a Reliant Regal , eh he said oh god , you know , I 'll have to park it round the corner , and he got out , did n't go into work , you know go to work every day where erm |
| 15 | In the absence of a university college it was the nearest the Gold Coast had to an institution of higher education . |
| 16 | THE stock market rang out 1989 in fine style yesterday but for the pound it was the familiar story of a struggling recovery from a previous hefty fall . |
| 17 | In effect it was a simple slap at both the school system and the way in which the system actually provokes bullying from pupils or teachers . |
| 18 | In a second condition it was an unlikely completion of the sentence , while remaining both syntactically and semantically consistent with the context . |
| 19 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 20 | Even in the daylight it was a dank , dark place , its pillars covered with moss and lichen , scarred by the weather and defaced by graffiti . |
| 21 | Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety . |
| 22 | On the official side it was a great help to be able to speak with one voice , especially where our specialized knowledge of equipment and operational needs of the boats were concerned . |
| 23 | In this dream I was the invisible observer of the terrace outside Francis 's house in the Abacos . |
| 24 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |
| 25 | In committee she was a doughty and sometimes intimidating fighter . |
| 26 | And if you lived this end of the village you was an uptowner , see ? |
| 27 | ‘ When I first saw the grand old lady she was a sorry sight ’ , said . |
| 28 | It was at this stage that came into her own , having learnt the skills of her five previous bosses ( and noted their shortcomings ) to such a degree she was a competent transport manager in her own right . |
| 29 | ‘ When she was a child she was a pretty little thing . |
| 30 | It was a pity she was an only child ; the fault of the riding accident , of course . |