Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the final moment , with a succession of lovers and of mirrors , vision distorted : I was presented with only a fractured picture of myself . |
| 2 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 3 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 4 | The next year she was referred to both a chest physician and a cardiologist but no further investigations were done . |
| 5 | Lowell Bayles paid $500 for the chance to fly the aircraft and it was completed with only a week to go to the National Air Races at Cleveland . |
| 6 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 7 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 8 | General de Gaulle , who had re-emerged unto the political scene , opposed the constitution and it was approved by only a minority of the electorate : 36 per cent voted ‘ for ’ , over 31 per cent ‘ against ’ , and 31 per cent abstained . |
| 9 | He was recognised by only a few , including columnist Sheilah Graham . |
| 10 | He was killed for just a small amount of money . |
| 11 | He was called in here a few days ago , about an accident . ’ |
| 12 | Back here , his chance at Edgbaston , where last season he was selected for only a couple of first-class fixtures , came because Dermot Reeve was injured . |
| 13 | He was used on only a few favoured bitches , but his influence is still undeniable , his potency incredible . |
| 14 | But before he cruised to his unbeaten 85 which sealed this victory with more than 11 overs to spare , he was put through quite an ordeal by the pumped-up Waqar . |