Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] was [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In strong wind it was as nimble as one might wish and had exceptional stability at the extreme sides of the wind window . |
| 2 | ‘ I think when he was eventually attacked by the brave pensioner he was more scared than his victims . ’ |
| 3 | Although ever watchful of her enviously slim figure she was not obsessive , and loved to dine out . |
| 4 | And then there was the odd case of Janice Young , who was , if anyone ever was , the doomed and unalterable scapegoat she was not pretty , she was not clever , she was not good at games , and yet , during her fifteenth year , she managed to make herself acceptable as one of the inner ring . |
| 5 | After investigating the gaunt , rather eerie ruins of the old observatory it was too dark for further exploration and I retired to the Lochaber Club refuge hut for supper . |
| 6 | But the trouble was with closing them in , not so much on the , but on the old flock it was so warped , the wood with being damp and wet and frosty it was freezing across every night and it was nearly taking my fingers off |
| 7 | Phar Lap was ridden by Bill ‘ Urn ’ Elliott , who got the gelding smartly into his stride , but Phar Lap drifted right over to the outside rail , with the result that after a quarter of a mile of the ten-furlong race he was well adrift of the field . |
| 8 | Within this simple framework of social resentment it was soon possible for him to nurture an obsessive anti-Semitism , which seems at first to have no specific origin in his emotional experience . |
| 9 | The case began before King Stephen , in front of whom Osbert denied the charge and claimed " benefit of clergy " , saying that because of his clerical status he was not subject to the king 's jurisdiction but only to that of the Church . |
| 10 | In an argument where the central issue was social cohesion it was clearly necessary to find some means of measuring this elusive force . |
| 11 | Throughout our short and painful conversation he was as charming , as elegant and as dignified as ever . |
| 12 | In the old factory it was just all like home market , what they call home market , it 's the same |
| 13 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |
| 14 | Going back into the private sector I was very keen to become a pluralist . |
| 15 | I knew you 'd thought of something , and when you asked for extra milk it was n't hard to guess what it was . ’ |
| 16 | With our limited experience it was seldom easy to calculate how hard things were going to be . |
| 17 | In the early stages of the inner-city study it was already evident that these rules were of historical and theoretical importance , as they lead to a regular series of alternations in derivationally related items . |
| 18 | But it was , in fact , the last serious work he was ever able to do . |
| 19 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 20 | When you saw Kenneth the real person he was very wonderful . |
| 21 | The following day he was still 300 metres below the summit of the Jorasses , and although the climbing was now easier , his progress was slowed by fragile rock and deteriorating weather . |
| 22 | At this early age she was still attractive . |
| 23 | By the following month I was still unable to pay anything back to Daphne . |
| 24 | But if anyone could relax her , it was Miguelito , if in real life he was as tender , as passionate and as exciting as the music he made . |
| 25 | In the Roman world it was probably responsible for any expansions which occurred in trade and equally for any constraints that existed . |
| 26 | As an ex-naval coxswain I was not obliged to take the Mountbatten course but did in fact take a refresher course at the Command Navigation Centre , HMS Raleigh at Torpoint which , under the auspices of a Lieut Commander fresh from training at Dartmouth Naval College , I found very arduous . |
| 27 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 28 | Although it was said in a jocular fashion it was too much for Maura . |
| 29 | By the time we reached the volcano 's outer lip it was deafeningly noisy . |
| 30 | In 1923 , some 25 per cent of the films shown to the trade were British ; the following year it was only five per cent . |