Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 2 | Er l After I finished my apprenticeship I was in a union . |
| 3 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
| 4 | Help of a more immediately practical nature was given to Manan , a young pianist who was without a piano . |
| 5 | In the corridor she had passed compartments full of young men playing cards , who looked up and appraised her face and figure with impersonal interest , and when she found another seat it was in a compartment with three other women travelling up to London on their own , all with suitcases and trim suits and carefully made-up faces . |
| 6 | That was still the kind of work that I wanted to do , and if I thought very much a comprehensive schools it was in a spirit of mild disquiet . |
| 7 | But it was n't until a fortnight after the accident , when I took it upon myself to see to the downstairs — particularly the kitchen which was in a state — ready for Auntie 's visit next day , that the riddle was solved . |
| 8 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 9 | In 1989 Indonesia and Malaysia accounted for almost three-quarters of world sales of tropical hardwood which were worth a total of US$7,000 million . |
| 10 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 11 | It was called Are We Nearly There ? and it was about a little boy who was on a journey with his father . |
| 12 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 13 | He married a girl who was with a firm who repaired old clothes . |
| 14 | No wonder they were in a tizz in Brighton . |
| 15 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 16 | As he pedalled slowly towards the farmhouse , logic told the village constable he was on a fool 's errand . |
| 17 | By the end of February he was on a second hours ' exercise , and Sister Cooney , who had watched his restless pacing and had seen that he was bored , found him some light work to do . |
| 18 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 19 | Whenever he spoke of these matters it was with a flexibility and charity such as those holding views less firm did not always display . |
| 20 | A Russian emigre who was for a while vice president of research and development at Prime/Computervision , has caught the start-up bug . |
| 21 | In accompanying school staff to the warehouses she was in a position to offer some advice , and in processing actual orders she did appear to exercise a tempering influence . |
| 22 | Every moment I was in a fever of anxiety lest I should be missing , by so much as a second , the vital news I both longed for and dreaded . |
| 23 | One February evening I was in a ship , northbound through the South China Sea . |
| 24 | " You know you 're doing wrong , " said the team leader who was like a bear with a sore head for the rest of the morning . |
| 25 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
| 26 | 6–9 Mrs Holliday , Bowmore , applied for the baptism of her daughter in the absence of her husband who was on a voyage to Africa and not expected to return for a year , and as they were " satisfied with Mrs Holliday 's knowledge as to the ordinance and the obligation " they agreed . |
| 27 | Quantitative limits were also thought to restrict competition as they hampered efficient banks who were in a position to create new deposits . |
| 28 | ‘ In the evening we were like a tribe of monkeys , sitting around chatting and picking ticks off one another . ’ |
| 29 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 30 | Because he had a largely immigrant clientele he was in a position analogous to that of a lawyer in a small town where networks are complex and gossip channels effective . |