Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] i a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that people were prepared to offer me a sequence of positions in which I only had to do research without having to lecture . |
| 2 | But she remembers very well and erm she was able to give me a lot of personal details about the movement in nineteen nineteen . |
| 3 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 4 | Kirsty was able to tell me a great deal of what had taken place in the operating theatre . |
| 5 | I was an adult and that was enough to make me a target . |