Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 2 | Christians had a sacred history : in the fourth century they acquired a sacred geography which was its spatial reflection . |
| 3 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 4 | And the reverberations of that shared theory may last for a very long time , long after the institution which was its natural concomitant in day-to-day social practices has gone . |
| 5 | Er we 're now doing this partnership which was what today was about , about the new generation spindle . |
| 6 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |
| 7 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 8 | An Army officer was shot dead on Aug. 20 at Tobalaba military airport , west of Santiago , by an assailant who was himself shot dead . |
| 9 | During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled . |
| 10 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 11 | Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron . |
| 12 | A soldier there was who said |
| 13 | Even if direct physical assault was made impossible by the bars of the cages there was something about this sudden attack on Creggan that replaced the fear he had felt earlier with anger . |
| 14 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 15 | ‘ Or what , Liessa ? ’ said the old man ( in this dim light there was something odd about the way he was slumped in the stone chair ) . |
| 16 | By nightfall there was nothing to report , as the beacons were lit . |
| 17 | I was cleaning out knives and the metal thing that goes over the knives there was something there and it was a nail and I just pushed and I caught it . |
| 18 | Yes , and the second time that happened it swept across the standing walls there , and in the near end of the caldarium there was somebody standing by the wall . |
| 19 | As a holy-roller he was something apart . |
| 20 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 21 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 22 | It 's Saturday it was it 's not bloody arrangement . |
| 23 | As an undergraduate he was something of a dandy , and even as a priest his appearance was remarkably trim . |
| 24 | Well I remember this wedding it was my auntie and she was she was married at Stronsay to a territorial . |
| 25 | And so he 'd left London , to come here , hoping to lick the closing wise wound of whatever talent it was he had . |
| 26 | Even if it was an illusion it was our best illusion . |
| 27 | Superintendent what was your response or your initial reaction to that information ? |
| 28 | However , in practice this was only achieved as a result of the very public support of Kibaki and of Charles Njonjo the influential Attorney General ( working against the interests of the founders of GEMA ) , a triumvirate which was itself to break apart with the public humiliation of Njonjo at judicial hearings in 1984 . |
| 29 | By nature , and before he went to Ireland , whose problems affected the characters and ruined the careers of many another English administrator before and since , Jeremy Taylor was a very humane man , and it may be appropriate to leave him by quoting a story which was his conclusion to The Liberty of Prophesying : |
| 30 | Megaw LJ agreed with Denning MR but Browne LJ dissented : he said that the majority were effectively remaking the contract which was something which the court was not entitled to do . |