Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 2 | We were always the guests of some local parish priest , and our outings were great fun as we were allowed to run more or less wild once we had arrived . |
| 3 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 4 | Many judicial rights were more trouble than they were worth , but , burdensome or trivial , they were nevertheless a foundation of aristocratic influence ; in half the villages and towns as mayor , councillor , or judge , the lord or his representative stood between the subject and his king . |
| 5 | Yeah well they gave it out when we were passing bus when we went down |
| 6 | But it was hypocritical sarcasm because she knew she would have done the same as him . |
| 7 | There was complete silence as we padded through two more streets with walls so bitten away that they looked like lace . |
| 8 | In the early part of the period there was little choice as it was unusual even for young , single women to engage in paid employment unless family circumstances demanded it . |
| 9 | She managed to ring her doctor but felt there was little point as she was convinced she had lost the baby . |
| 10 | It was broad daylight when they crossed at Kirkandrews — and here there was a surprise development : John Randolph , Earl of Moray , in process of fording the river with a couple of hundred men , come late to the venture . |
| 11 | It was broad daylight when I read this passage and the sunlight that radiated through the high plate-glass windows illuminated a scene of modernity and order . |
| 12 | It was broad daylight when she woke . |
| 13 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 14 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 15 | Their next port of call after their swim was nearby Lefkada where they stopped for lunch . |
| 16 | It was another day before she 'd say , ‘ You made me bring food for your tart so I poisoned it . |
| 17 | It was another hour before they were called back . |
| 18 | It was another hour before it worked . |
| 19 | With a happy smile on her extraordinarily beautiful face , and the memory of a man with blue eyes in her mind , she wandered back to where she had left her car , and Ellie being Ellie , who was totally incapable off passing anything that looked even remotely interesting , it was another hour before she finally got to it . |
| 20 | But there was some hesitation when she enquired after Christopher whom she badly wanted to see when he could manage to get some leave . |
| 21 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
| 22 | ‘ There was some concern before we moved — particularly about the open plan layout — but by and large people 's fears have not been realised . |
| 23 | Yet his great blue jowls appeared sufficient fortification against the world ; while so immense was his dignity that it was some while before I realized he spent his nights in the arms of my recently widowed mother . |
| 24 | It was some time before they had Liam fit to drive the cart home . |
| 25 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 26 | It was some time before they were able to leave the hospital , and they went straight to Jack 's barn . |
| 27 | It was some time before we retrieved them and went into the piggery . |
| 28 | It was some time before she realised that she was n't just wide awake — she was hungry ! |
| 29 | It was some time before she could gather her forces sufficiently to stand up and rest her hands on the chill white plaster of the window embrasure . |
| 30 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |