Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] dr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning I was Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 2 | She was Dr Katharine Ash , twenty-five years old , able to handle the admiration she got from the opposite sex with aplomb , supremely confident of her destiny . |
| 3 | Next door to you was Dr Wetherby , and beyond him Norman Pinder . |
| 4 | Finally there was Dr Lucy Pirnia . |
| 5 | Er I 'd say it were Dr Hilary Jones . |
| 6 | It was Dr Lacey , professor of microbiology at Leeds University , who explained the transmission of salmonella in eggs and defended assertions by Mrs Edwina Currie , the sacked junior health minister , that the infection had spread throughout the British laying flock . |
| 7 | I think your difficulty arises from the fact that if you choose someone who 's alive , they 'll deny it , and if you indicate that it was Dr Wetherby , whose bedroom on my plan is next door to yours , you immediately establish a connection with him which will interest us . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps you only thought it was Dr Kemp , sir ? ’ continued Morse . |
| 10 | It was Dr Kemp who rang — please believe that ! |
| 11 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 12 | It was Dr O'Connor who Dustin Hoffman turned to when he was researching his Oscar-winning role as autistic savant Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man . |
| 13 | But it was Dr George Tolley , director of the MSC 's Open Tech Unit , whatever that is , who was having a go about professional people not keeping up with developments in their professions . |
| 14 | It was Dr Kiwi not ‘ Dr Kayewe ’ as Mrs Zamzam remembered , and Dr Nathan not ‘ Dr Natani ’ , but there was indeed a woman doctor called Miriam just as Mrs Zamzam had said . |
| 15 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 16 | It was Dr Entwistle who had prodded her more firmly in that direction , oddly enough . |
| 17 | It was Dr John Burton , however , who left the classic example of outside prejudice when he observed that the local roads bred two memorable creatures , ungainly spindle-shaped oxen and beautiful long-legged women . |
| 18 | It was Dr Rafaelo . |
| 19 | It was Dr Who that provided the young Loveday with his earliest musical revelations , as he can remember being transfixed by the time travelling adventures and the theme music ( an early outing into electronic music composed by the legendary Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop ) . |
| 20 | They saw a black Morris Cowley pull up in front of Hogan 's and knew it was Dr Johnson . |
| 21 | She was wise enough to understand , now that her fear was leaving her , that it was Dr Neil 's very real concern which had made him so sharp with her when he had found out who it was he had rescued . |
| 22 | She looked sidelong at him , walking along beside her , his unspoiled profile presented to her ; but the other scarred side did not matter , because it was Dr Neil who mattered , not his face … |
| 23 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 24 | From 1962 until his death he was Dr Lee 's professor of anatomy in Oxford and honorary director of the Medical Research Council 's neuroendocrinology unit in the university . |
| 25 | He was Dr Neil , and she wanted to throw herself at him , and would have done so three months ago , but he , and Vetch Street , and Effie and Rose , and everything , had changed her . |
| 26 | He was Dr Tariq . |
| 27 | What was Dr Greene saying now , though ? |
| 28 | Among them was Dr Hubertus Van Mook , destined to be the head of the post-war administration . |
| 29 | And her last sight of them was Dr Neil standing cold and upright , the scar on his white face angry and vivid , facing the lovely woman whose whole posture was that of a pleading Niobe — McAllister wondered where all these classical allusions were suddenly coming from , remembering that Niobe was famous for her tears , and for their power . |