Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of them all she was the most aware that Jared Tunstall 's threats were never idle , and that her new husband had ruined her father , and themselves , with his loose morals , and looser tongue . |
| 2 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 3 | I thought I would die at the start but , actually , once I got into the swing of it all it was rather fun . ’ |
| 4 | So it is thanks to you for coming to these events and thanks to all who contributed to the organisation for between you all it was a most successful day . |
| 5 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 6 | What prompted her father to go out with the hand-cart she did n't know , because underneath it all he was a proud man . |
| 7 | Because underneath it all she was as strong as him and that strength appealed to him , making her a challenge . |
| 8 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 9 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
| 10 | In his fifties he was to return to the Liskeard area , the ‘ land of his fathers ’ , and make notes for a book on Cornwall ; alas , never to be completed . |
| 11 | Certainly — from what little he was later told — both parents were fervent in their work and their loyalty to the Imperium . |
| 12 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 13 | a cup of tea on its own She was quite pleased with her t-shirt . |
| 14 | At his heaviest he was 18st 3lb , and he lost seven stone in 10 months . |
| 15 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 16 | By his forties he was already recognized as a future bishop . |