Example sentences of "was a [noun] [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying . |
| 2 | Jean-Claude 's use of the word — the way he spat it out as if dirt clung to it — was a blasphemy that made me feel sick . |
| 3 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 4 | Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940 meant the arrival of an exhausted Belgian soldier , who was a teacher and helped me with my French . |
| 5 | This was a prospect that made me feel ill . |
| 6 | Then he ran out in a panic and said he was a doctor and thought I was dying . |
| 7 | But then there was a sound that sent me swiftly to the door . |