Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [was/were] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I detected a faint smile on his lips , but I did not smile back because my heart was in a turmoil . |
| 2 | My story was about a girl who finds a bedraggled kitten who is really a king . |
| 3 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 4 | My basement was like a swimming pool . |
| 5 | My apprenticeship was in a shop for a year working and adapting and changing and getting an understanding of it all . |
| 6 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |
| 7 | My mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed . |
| 8 | After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library . |
| 9 | The first night a girl put her hand inside my trousers was during a Kenneth More film about the sinking of the Titanic . |
| 10 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 11 | ‘ My father was in a camp at the end of the war , ’ Lucy said . |
| 12 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 13 | The main honest job I had during my teens was as a drummer for a piano player who worked various bars and dance halls around the Zona Negra . |
| 14 | My impression was of a group of people who were seriously interested in the subject and deeply concerned about it . |
| 15 | Now , utterly desolate , my mother was without a home , and , as a result of my father 's death , short of money . |
| 16 | Her hair was like a bird 's nest , her skin grey , her leg bleeding . |
| 17 | I do not know whether we dragons loved her or hated her ; her will was like iron , as fast clad as our scaled hides , but her heart was like a songbird in the morning and she was as lovely as the lilies of the field . |
| 18 | Her story was like a tale from a book . |
| 19 | Herbert or Algy or Whatever — the very same who had said ( how original ! ) that her skin was like a peach … |
| 20 | And her handbag was in a box in the kitchen in the first box that you put in the van . |
| 21 | Sandy tried to think of something to say , something that would explain how she felt ; but the image that formed in her mind was of a punchbowl brimming with vomit , and she knew instantly that she was about to do likewise . |
| 22 | The papers lay there unread , however , because her mind was in a turmoil . |
| 23 | Her breath was tearing at her throat , the stitch in her side was like a knife , but still she raced on . |
| 24 | The accident happened in heavy rain on the A 424 , three miles north of Burford , just a hundred yards from the spot where a couple were killed in December after their car was in a collision with a coach . |
| 25 | Her entry was for a suit for Dame Edna Everidge to wear to visit her bank manager . |
| 26 | His name on her lips was like a plea , and with one swift movement he gathered her into his arms , pressing her against his powerful chest . |
| 27 | Her eyes were on a level with his chest , where his tie hung crookedly from a casually loosened knot . |
| 28 | Her eyes were on a level with his nose and they were brown and full of life . |
| 29 | Sometimes her eyes were like a satellite picture of earth , a marble swirling in space . |
| 30 | A MOTHER-of-three was killed instantly when her car was in a pile-up with a police Volvo answering a 999 call . |