Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The features that impressed these employers about the spare/part-time jobs of young people applying for apprenticeships in their firms were mainly elements which were absent in WE schemes . |
| 2 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 3 | And was that not my destiny , with my past of libraries and hotels ? |
| 4 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 5 | Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
| 6 | It was amazing how his underwear and the case seemed to be involved in a kind of dance , in which the arrival home of his shirts might depend on who was found guilty of what . |
| 7 | Gillian was thirteen when her father ran off with one of his pupils who 'd left school a year earlier . |
| 8 | Ras Makonnen governed Harar until his death in 1906 and there his son Tafari was born and grew up under the enlightened administration of his eminent father ; he was thirteen when his father died . |
| 9 | Well when I was It would have changed when I was well maybe my teens it would have changed I think . |
| 10 | I was 18 when my daughter , now four , was born . |
| 11 | The T-Rex singer was 29 when his car smashed into the tree 15 years ago . |
| 12 | She was seventeen when her life changed . |
| 13 | ‘ Gustav 's the younger by just over two years … he was nine when his father died … they moved away from Rostock , went to stay with relatives in the Harz mountains … mother married again and rather faded away , they were brought up mostly by grandparents and aunts . |
| 14 | Good Lord , it was wonderful how my master could read my mind ! |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I was 14 when my dad took me across from Liverpool . |