Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] was [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 2 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 3 | When any of our neighbours wanted firewood theirs was from old fish boxes , but they had it cheap at a penny a bowlful , and ‘ no tick ’ , ‘ cash on the nail , ’ as he said firmly . |
| 4 | After the official closure it was with mixed emotions that we took our leave of Wadeville . |
| 5 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 6 | The year he went to college he was in three Wirral Youth Theatre productions . |
| 7 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 8 | Artichaut sauce vinaigrette it was for both the girls . |
| 9 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 10 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 11 | Before the op I was on 1,000 milligrams of the Dopramine drug a day , which is what the brain is lacking , which is substitute the drug for , which is . |
| 12 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 13 | No wonder she was near demented ! ’ |
| 14 | Your so-called Gittel 's not the only one who is n't quite the girl she was in that far-off summertime . ’ |
| 15 | As a symbolic act it was of much importance since it offered the prospect of a framework for a wider Anglo-Irish settlement and provided a hope of genuine political involvement for the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland , not in a failed local assembly but through their co-religionists in the south . |
| 16 | For a second he was in two minds about it . |
| 17 | ‘ But I ca n't picture him any other way than the little boy he was on that last day I saw him . ’ |
| 18 | For her part she was under extreme pressure , still only in her twenties and supervising up to 160 Girls at any one point . |
| 19 | When that finally came to a crisis I was within four days of complete paralysis . |
| 20 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 21 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 22 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 23 | Do you remember the Caldmore and Palfry shopping festival it was in nineteen twenty three apparently , do you remember anything about that , anything about competitions and odd things like that ? |
| 24 | and then the next day I was in that shop working away and on my life this was |
| 25 | And what a great day it was for 82-year-old George Mitchell of the Belmont Club . |
| 26 | Even as he made back up towards it , half pulling , half swimming along the line leading towards the rapidly swelling shape that he knew was his raft , the water he was in turned solid , sweeping him effortlessly to one side . |
| 27 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 28 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 29 | ‘ He told his contact he was on Olympic Airways ’ seven o'clock flight to Athens . |
| 30 | His eyes flashed wide as he said it , and when he looked at his wife it was with unfeigned admiration . |