Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [pron] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 2 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 3 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 4 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 5 | The comb was made of shiny steel and it was his to keep . |
| 6 | But the expectation would not be driven out … and yet Harrison was a fine man and there was something about his miserably presented directness which made her want to scoop him up . |
| 7 | She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms . |
| 8 | So I turned on my electric torch and there was nobody there . |
| 9 | And mine matey and bess be about me that was quite a long exclamation but it was something surprise them terribly , Oh bess be about me , just sort of , Oh God come to me help , sort of thing . |
| 10 | Of course , we had a good time and there was plenty to drink but nobody got silly as far as I can remember . ’ |
| 11 | It was not very good scent but it was something . |
| 12 | The , the , there was a very old car , , one , in a beautiful car but there was nothing left of the car , you could n't even |
| 13 | ‘ Kathy was a beautiful girl but what was she doing with this man Bunny ? ’ she says . |
| 14 | The Romans were always good at finding a sheltered and beautiful site and it was they who first settled here . |
| 15 | Whatever her feelings towards her family , she was my reluctant hostess and I was her reluctant guest . |
| 16 | One angry worker explained : ‘ They said they did not have sufficient money to sustain capital investment and pay shareholders , so somebody had to draw the short straw and it was us . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A few months ago she was in her full health and it was you we were worried about , ’ Michael cried . |
| 18 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 19 | He had a grey face and there was something wrong with his eyes . |
| 20 | John was keen to help in a practical way and it was he who came up with an idea for marking John 's year in captivity . |
| 21 | She did n't have the lead but it was still a big part and it was her first time on the stage since the scandal . |
| 22 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 23 | In unoccupied Spain the constituted authorities did not have the excuse of overwhelming military force and it was their failure in crisis which condemned the ancien régime . |
| 24 | Sometimes he 'd look across at me , when my mum was deep in a copy of Psychic News and there was nothing on the television , any time from May to October . |
| 25 | Boyd Orr 's malnourished population was drawn almost entirely from this section of the working class and it was their lives which changed little during the inter-war years as Carl Chinn , and other writers have noted . |
| 26 | Number eight Dave Cook provided excellent support and it was his pass to Steve Glen that allowed the scrum-half to scamper over for the score . |
| 27 | And the gardener there was always a permanent gardener but he was he had enough to do but the estate men would be sent up to clear that . |
| 28 | It was as if the moor were the whole world and there was nothing anywhere but the moor . |
| 29 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |