Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as he could be aware of someone else 's problems , his own were the ones that preoccupied him most . |
| 2 | The words on his lips were the words that described him . |
| 3 | ‘ It was the shine that attracted him , you know he 's like a magpie that way . |
| 4 | But it was the driver that made him halt abruptly . |
| 5 | He has admitted he was the driver and says he will give himself up when he is ready . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're going ti 'ave a job ti rear yon lad , ’ he would tell Annie upon arriving home , and this was the thought that crossed his mind now . |
| 7 | But it was the vultures that fascinated me . |
| 8 | It was the cold that forced me to move . |
| 9 | It was the tears that haunted him . |
| 10 | THE most significant feature of Sri Lanka 's provincial elections , which took place on May 17th , was the calm that surrounded them . |
| 11 | ‘ That headache has tightened you up all over — or perhaps it was the tightness that gave you the headache in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 13 | Holland was the country that impressed him most : |
| 14 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 15 | Simply observing vervets rush into trees when somebody gives a tonal call does not guarantee that it was the call that did it . |
| 16 | That was the wave that earned him respect in Hawaii . |
| 17 | It was the braces that brought my first step back to earth . |
| 18 | This was the part that troubled him , that he found difficult to understand . |
| 19 | It was the gin that surprised me . |
| 20 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 21 | To bring them success was the lure that brought me here . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ First-born ’ was the word that caught her attention , ‘ And knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born son . ’ |
| 23 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 24 | She 'd often been accused of impersonality in her work and it was the criticism that stung her most . |
| 25 | It was the veil that told it was not the garden , then the hat that went to race-meetings and the dressing-case made up the rest of the story : Maman was going away . |
| 26 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 27 | It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger . |
| 28 | It was the smell that alerted him . |
| 29 | And I shall always believe that it was the scandal that killed her . |
| 30 | ‘ Then it was the horse-riding that brought you here ? ’ |