Example sentences of "[det] [pers pn] [was/were] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I was a bit dazed . |
| 2 | At one moment I was a novice working in the laundry , at another I was a university student , at another a young teacher , at another a friend , at another an enemy . |
| 3 | ‘ Last time we did this you were a kitten , ’ said Marina . |
| 4 | I had a satellite mirror found in a quarry , and took i used this It was a mould for this to get it a perfect parabolic shape . |
| 5 | To a few he was a nuisance , to most he was merely a curiosity . |
| 6 | But it was a history that was now informed by the lengthy experience of partition , Polenpolitik and Kulturkampf As such it was a history that was perceived and shaped in terms of feelings , legacies , fears and foes . |
| 7 | Witch … ghost … oh , that she were a ghost indeed ! ’ |
| 8 | A young research social scientist could well go into a factory and tell the people she worked with that she was a student on a placement for , say , three months , learning about the realities of factory work , when in fact she was a graduate research worker carrying out a carefully planned study of labour-management relationships . |
| 9 | As a rich man it was believed if you commissioned a church or chantry chapel or stained glass windows like these it was a way of assuring a place amongst the the blessed |
| 10 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
| 11 | I decided to keep a low profile , after all I was a guest . |
| 12 | In all she was a model wife , and earned the esteem of everyone in the town . |
| 13 | Of course this film was a condemnation of sweat-shop conditions , and of course it was a melodrama in which poor girls have affairs with the boss 's sons and in which the heroine brandishes a gun in order to make one son do the honourable thing but above all it was a vehicle for a star who had already become one of Hollywood 's hottest properties . |
| 14 | Labour M P's jeered ; after all it was a year ago that Mrs Thatcher heaped similar praise on Nigel Lawson , just before he quit . |
| 15 | After that it was a race . |
| 16 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 17 | After that it was a matter of negotiating a passage with the captain and then waiting until the ship 's cargo was loaded and the weather and omens were right for the voyage . |
| 18 | She had never done so , of course , but all the same it was a possibility worth remembering , if things got sticky in the future . |
| 19 | All the same it was a relief to discover that he really was n't in . |
| 20 | For most it was a pan of ordinary life . |