Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I make a mistake , I would much rather I was the guy who got the shrapnel . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was the contrast which intrigued him . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was the air he possessed of inviting confidences . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was the etchings themselves , but he sat and I thought he was n't really looking at them . |
| 5 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was the way his eyes flicked about as if hoping for an attacker to appear , or maybe it was the slight inclination of his head . |
| 7 | The girl was a gifted shoemaker , but there was something insolent about her , perhaps it was the way she held her head high with her glorious abundant hair flowing free that somehow irritated Emily . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was the wine I had drunk but I only gave a short yell before my hair was grabbed and my head jerked violently back . |
| 9 | Now that in turns means that the poetry of the period , and the allegorical poetry of the period especially , is not as F R Levis would probably have assumed , to be divided into cold intellectual abstractions and warm sensuous particulars , there is a sense in which the very abstractions have a sensuous property , perhaps through a philosophical mistake , but nevertheless it was the way their minds were build . |
| 10 | There is a sense in which the very abstractions have a sensuous property , perhaps through a philosophical mistake , but nevertheless it was the way their minds were built . |
| 11 | I was working in the middle of the coffee region and so the Supplies Team was also in charge of the coffee plantations , Normally it was the women who did the harvesting , working some four hours a day . |
| 12 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 13 | Coroner Colin Penna heard yesterday it was the job which led to his depression . |
| 14 | Robson was the man who ended Keegan 's England career — and yesterday he was the manager whose side punctured the optimism at St James 's Park as Sporting Lisbon brilliantly lifted the four-team Super Challenge Cup . |
| 15 | And often it was the women who sacrificed their own needs to satisfy those of the rest of the family . |
| 16 | Now what was the file you called when you ran sa when you ran stat |
| 17 | Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 . |
| 18 | They 're simply asking for more money to spent with no concerns about the value for money , and surely it was the Conservatives who used to tell us ten or fifteen years ago , that you could n't judge the quality of a service by the amount of money spent on it . |
| 19 | I knew then that my end had come for surely it was the Man who had put the trap on the pole to catch me . |
| 20 | Maybe she was the kind who trails havoc behind her wherever she goes . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Then there was the day she told him that she had read his books . |
| 22 | ‘ And then there was the day I arrived at your home , ’ Adam went on relentlessly . |
| 23 | Then there was the year we took part in the P.M.B. Organic Potato Storage Trials . |
| 24 | Then there was the actor who played his younger brother Adam , Nicholas Lyndhurst . |
| 25 | Sometimes it was the children who forced the pace , pleading in all innocence to join their brothers , sisters , or friends who had somehow won this great distinction of a place on a Kindertransport . |
| 26 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 27 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 28 | ‘ Funnily enough , we could detect how the readership was developing from book signings : initially it was the children who came ; then mothers , mumbling that their children were at school , and then the fathers saying , ‘ I want to know what my children are reading ’ ; and finally , the parents on their own , no longer needing childish excuses . ’ |
| 29 | He was also , on the whole , for the Khedive on the grounds that at least he was the devil they knew . |
| 30 | Indeed it was the colour which amazed … |