Example sentences of "was [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working there was my exit from the straight world . |
| 2 | Looking back , that square was my gateway to the real world — and the gate could only work one way . |
| 3 | The intensive care time was the most distressing , though my admiration for the nursing staff was boundless , and so was my gratitude to the surgeon who quite literally saved Michael 's life . |
| 4 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 5 | Gone was my loathing of the Inland Revenue , VAT , all forms of Government , the Law and the Establishment . |
| 6 | Asked whether he would ask for a postponement of the talks Mr Clerides said : ‘ This was my position in the election campaign , and it still stands . ’ |
| 7 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 8 | ‘ He was my man of the match , ’ said two-goal Goodman . |
| 9 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 10 | ‘ He was my tutor at the Recruitment Project . |
| 11 | It was my contribution to The Roman Villa in Britaini and optimistically entitled ‘ The Future of Villa Studies ’ . |
| 12 | It was my turn for the telescope . |
| 13 | She was my doctor at the time , she was she was oh she was a grand person was Doctor . |
| 14 | Yeah th that was , that was the that was my point about the size of the country , and I think |
| 15 | One of the main reasons why I joined the 1990 rebel tour to South Africa was my disappointment with the way I had been used as an England spinner in the previous couple of years . |
| 16 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 17 | But equally , the first thing I remember was my number in the infant school , when I was number fifty five , and er there were fifty eight of us in the class , and one lady kept order . |
| 18 | And suddenly the kitchen door — we all lived in the kitchen — burst open , and standing there was my father with the most effulgent smile on his face . |
| 19 | I dreamed ( or daydreamed ) that it was my father in the tent , sick , and then that my whole family were there again , in the house . |
| 20 | Such was my introduction to the Decimax D12 system , designed and manufactured by Outline Technical Services of Braintree in Essex . |
| 21 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 22 | There was my plate on the wall beside me , a symbol of my solid importance . |
| 23 | Er , and that was my brainwave of the week , basically . |
| 24 | Montrose also appointed a second bailie to hold his courts in the regality of Tarbolton , which was considered too detached from the main body of the duke 's superiorities to be handled by the same judge , and , in addition , the duke was himself bailie of the regality of Glasgow with power to appoint a deputy to act in his place . |
| 25 | Within a few months George Dundas was himself commander of the Lutine , and on 2nd November transferred in this rank to the sloop Calpe , again newly commissioned , and with this record of command his career was firmly established and his subsequent rise rapid , for in this case Keith had made no mistake in patronising a friend . |
| 26 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 27 | I only saw one Sunday paper , but he was their Man of the Match ( Whyte getting 6/10 ! ) . |
| 28 | What they did seem in agreement on was their criticism of the university authorities and the government which allowed such actions to go unchallenged . |
| 29 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 30 | I have interviewed people who had spent 30 years in a big bureaucracy who said that the 6-month development task force was the only thing they were excited by and the only thing they would be remembered for — change was their mark on the organization . |