Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [pers pn] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked after my mother I was the youngest of our family , and I did n't consider that I was doing something unusual , it was my duty . |
| 2 | For someone of my temperament it was the worst possible kind of job , and towards the end I was beginning to feel suicidal . |
| 3 | I called Philip 's wife Hilary in a previous novel , Changing Places , because it is an androgynous name and at that stage of their marriage she was the dominant partner in the marriage , or , as the saying is , wore the trousers . |
| 4 | During the last years of her life she was the leader of a group — concerned to reform sexual behaviour and discard gender stereotyping — that published the journal Urania from 1916 . |
| 5 | At the time of his death he was the heaviest man in Britain , weighing almost 53 stone ( 336kg ) and measuring 3ft 11in around the leg and 9ft 4in around the waist . |
| 6 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 7 | With my father it was the other way round : I introduced him to angling . |
| 8 | In my opinion he was the League 's outstanding player throughout the season . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's very strict , ’ Vimla once told me , ‘ But they say that in her youth she was the best dancer in North India . ’ |
| 10 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 11 | Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent . |
| 12 | From that moment the poor man knew in his heart it was the start of his dog 's career in Grand Prix car chasing ! |
| 13 | From 1672 until his death he was the mason to Gray 's Inn , London . |
| 14 | No sooner had I laid back down when the sound of the buzzer broke the peace again and to my amazement it was the boilie rod . |
| 15 | For our family it was the gentlest of introductions to an island full of surprises . |