Example sentences of "was [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |
| 2 | " And was I a nuisance then ? " |
| 3 | ‘ Was I a pressie ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 5 | Was yours an endowment ? |
| 6 | And also sorry , excuse me like the other points there are you a smoker , no my wife does , she smokes twenty was you a smoker |
| 7 | that was you the night the doctor came round he , he nearly threw up |
| 8 | Neither was she a whore . |
| 9 | Was she a child then still , that she could not take the decision for herself ? |
| 10 | She was dressed differently but it was the same face , the same hair , the same pleasant manner , and I said to her , well I put it to her , was she a twin ? |
| 11 | Was she a pirate ? |
| 12 | Miss Rose , was she a widow ? |
| 13 | Was she a fool to hope there had been a deeper meaning in that fierce command ? |
| 14 | Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) . |
| 15 | ‘ This young lady , Ruth Cohen , was she a friend of yours ? ’ |
| 16 | Yeah but was she a woman living on her own or had she got a husband ? |
| 17 | And was she a visitor in Naples ? |
| 18 | ‘ Was she a partner ? ’ |
| 19 | Good God , was she a teenager ? |
| 20 | Was she a murderer or something ? ’ |
| 21 | Was she a sympathizer ? ’ |
| 22 | Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ? |
| 23 | He was a tawny lion poised for the kill — and was she the prey ? |
| 24 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean , was she the sort of girl that other girls could be friends with ? |
| 26 | Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ? |
| 27 | Was she the woman we met on the road last night ? ’ |
| 28 | He was a Marxist and might be called a ‘ Christian Communist ’ , but he could not answer the question ‘ was he a communist ? ’ directly , he could only state his beliefs . |
| 29 | ‘ Was he a Communist ? ’ |
| 30 | His Return : Was He a Communist ? |