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Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Perhaps it was the air he possessed of inviting confidences .
2	The girl was a gifted shoemaker , but there was something insolent about her , perhaps it was the way she held her head high with her glorious abundant hair flowing free that somehow irritated Emily .
3	Perhaps it was the wine I had drunk but I only gave a short yell before my hair was grabbed and my head jerked violently back .
4	Corman naturally agreed with this assessment and is not saying whether or not it was the way he and Nicholson intended it .
5	Now what was the file you called when you ran sa when you ran stat
6	‘ Then there was the day she told him that she had read his books .
7	‘ And then there was the day I arrived at your home , ’ Adam went on relentlessly .
8	Then there was the year we took part in the P.M.B. Organic Potato Storage Trials .
9	Then there were the screws they called night patrol .
10	But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head .
11	But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head .
12	He was also , on the whole , for the Khedive on the grounds that at least he was the devil they knew .
13	I do n't know why she was the way she was just before that young blighter with the placard made Blazer rear up , but she was n't ill and she was n't drunk , got that ? ’