Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of my lectures to the Staff Colleges , The Bombing Years — A View from the Cockpit , I can say as pertinently as I can that my first bombing tour was a complete and utter waste of time . |
| 2 | My next girl friend was a friendly and kind girl and we liked the same things . |
| 3 | In its first year turnover was a modest forty thousand pounds , it 's now twelve million . |
| 4 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 5 | A booklet put out in 1900 by the Franco-American Food Company of Jersey City made the point that its canned tomato soup was a spiced rather than a sweet one , " and our increasing sales of this variety show that it suits the taste of the majority . |
| 6 | His loyal mount Indraugnir was a match for any daemon . |
| 7 | For instance , suppose that your last knitting project was a sweater with a large picture on the front which was stored in the console stitch pattern A and B areas , taking up a total of 31,680 BITS of memory . |