Example sentences of "was [adj] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was pregnant many a night I 've run out and slept in passages till the morning . |
| 2 | He was moody all the time , with a flashing temper , and when Changez was at home , nursing his bad arm , Anwar came to me as I worked in the store-room . |
| 3 | It was possible all the jewellery removed from the display had been recovered , although a few items might still be missing , he added . |
| 4 | Tina never felt guilty about anything , but Cecilia was guilty all the time . |
| 5 | What was that all the talk about |
| 6 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 7 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 8 | And was that such a fault ? |
| 9 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 10 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 11 | The monistic position , as we saw , was that such an idea , ii closely examined , does not make clear sense , because there can be no unequivocal criteria of numerical diversity . |
| 12 | Whereas Predator was flawed by poor programming , Red Heat was abysmal all the way from the design board . |
| 13 | I did n't like the beer factory all that much — it was wet all the time , but in the yeast factory I quite liked that , because I was working with machines … |
| 14 | Well for slings , getting bags out of the hold see the whole job was so interesting , when you were doing these jobs that was interesting all the time . |
| 15 | GUIL : No … it was light all the time , you see , and you opened your eyes very , very slowly . |
| 16 | I 've had my reservations about all three of these acts at one time or another , but , standing here , gripped and pulsing , in Chicago University 's Mandel Hall , my veins pumping nothing but Dr Pepper and fatigue , it become obvious that I WAS WRONG ALL THE WAY . |
| 17 | She was afraid all the time . |
| 18 | Or was this all a mistake ? |
| 19 | They were aroused , no doubt , by the rumble of the all-metal wheelbarrow , which was audible half a mile away . |
| 20 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 21 | The monkey had plenty to eat , it was warm all the time and the monks in their saffron robes were very kind . |
| 22 | I was an artist 's model , you see , and he was convinced all the men were after me . |
| 23 | ‘ It was scrappy all the way through and both of us can play a lot better . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It was scrappy all the way through and both of us can play a lot better . ’ |
| 25 | And because she was conscious all the time of his pride in his own daughter Jenny , so much brighter , her diffidence and lack of self-confidence increased . |
| 26 | These were foolish and unnecessary questions anyhow , because I was sure such a divinity would never have anything to do with someone so much older and so much less good-looking than himself . |
| 27 | I had boils and chilblains all over my hands , had had two days food poisoning ( when I had vomited over the Sergeant-Major 's jeep ) , and was tired all the time . |
| 28 | He was unpenalised all the way , but the blotted his copybook with a dab on the very last section . |
| 29 | ‘ Poor Daddy , it was all such a bore , ’ she said , turning the pages over hurriedly . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Sally-Anne , wiping her mouth with her napkin , ‘ it was all such a surprise , the evening started out so well . |