Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I make a mistake , I would much rather I was the guy who got the shrapnel . |
| 2 | Well I thought perhaps it was a bit what was wrapped up |
| 3 | When Mark Proctor volleyed the ball against the bar in the first half perhaps it was a sign it was not going to be Boro 's night . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was the contrast which intrigued him . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was the air he possessed of inviting confidences . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was the etchings themselves , but he sat and I thought he was n't really looking at them . |
| 7 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was the way his eyes flicked about as if hoping for an attacker to appear , or maybe it was the slight inclination of his head . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | obviously it was no good he , you could smoke like a chimney it made no damn difference the state his insides were |
| 12 | So it was a desire she had to deny . |
| 13 | We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either . |
| 14 | Cut inside it was a hole which was at ground level . |
| 15 | Now that in turns means that the poetry of the period , and the allegorical poetry of the period especially , is not as F R Levis would probably have assumed , to be divided into cold intellectual abstractions and warm sensuous particulars , there is a sense in which the very abstractions have a sensuous property , perhaps through a philosophical mistake , but nevertheless it was the way their minds were build . |
| 16 | There is a sense in which the very abstractions have a sensuous property , perhaps through a philosophical mistake , but nevertheless it was the way their minds were built . |
| 17 | I was working in the middle of the coffee region and so the Supplies Team was also in charge of the coffee plantations , Normally it was the women who did the harvesting , working some four hours a day . |
| 18 | Now , ready to leave for her afternoon and evening 's fun she thought it unlikely that she would meet anyone she knew in Fleet Street , or even up West with Rose , and anyway it was a chance which she was prepared to take , for she intended her little excursion to be the basis of yet another article . |
| 19 | Corman naturally agreed with this assessment and is not saying whether or not it was the way he and Nicholson intended it . |
| 20 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 21 | Coroner Colin Penna heard yesterday it was the job which led to his depression . |
| 22 | Robson was the man who ended Keegan 's England career — and yesterday he was the manager whose side punctured the optimism at St James 's Park as Sporting Lisbon brilliantly lifted the four-team Super Challenge Cup . |
| 23 | At the time I dismissed this but later it was a piece which fitted the puzzle . ’ |
| 24 | Inevitably it was a transaction which disturbed many of Audebert of La Marche 's neighbours , and especially his distant kinsmen , the Lusignans and Taillefers . |
| 25 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 26 | Oh yeah these maintenance contracts are the lowest , I mean I took one out on my mum 's C D player because they 'd , they 'd had trouble with it , er multi play , turns out it was the stack one they had trouble with not that one , but it was only thirty quid for four years I mean |
| 27 | About a year an' a ‘ alf back and the methadone course was over ten days and really it was no use whatsoever . |
| 28 | I did n't find out he was the artist who 'd done all of the paintings until the end of the conversation and that was basically what ended the conversation : I just ran off ! |
| 29 | And often it was the women who sacrificed their own needs to satisfy those of the rest of the family . |
| 30 | And everyone was saying well it was a shame you 've got this far . |