Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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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 | 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 . |
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 | He was also , on the whole , for the Khedive on the grounds that at least he was the devil they knew . |
12 | 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 ? ’ |