Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
| 2 | I was confession in the remember rightly ? |
| 3 | At the office door I found that I was second in the queue , not first . |
| 4 | ‘ I was second in the Mediterranean Open in March and in the PGA Championship at Wentworth in May , but I did n't keep going . |
| 5 | Perhaps , in retrospect , I was over-kind in interpreting the offensive ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ as a belated working through of petty teenage bigotry . |
| 6 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 7 | Admittedly there had been almost no money in it , but he took it as evidence that she was saving in order to leave him . |
| 8 | She was fishing in her reticule as she spoke , and from it she produced a handkerchief tied in a loose bundle . |
| 9 | But the money ran out , so she was cutoff in mid-sentence . |
| 10 | She was disconsolate in consequence , and seemed to find time hanging heavily on her hands . |
| 11 | One night , at the age of twenty-six , she was the victim of an appalling accident , when she was passenger in a sports car which ran out of control and somersaulted , landing upside down . |
| 12 | Well she was Dave in lesson time apparently . |
| 13 | She was harmony in sandalwood , a citrine that sang . |
| 14 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 15 | It was faith in a God Who is watching over the world , and is active in it . |
| 16 | It was faith in a God Who cared for an individual , and spoke to him , lovingly and regularly . |
| 17 | It was faith in a God Who is unchanging . |
| 18 | After love , it was night in the desert , handfuls of icy sand stinging her skin and eyes . |
| 19 | Moreover , it was improvements in peasant husbandry that were primarily responsible for the growth . |
| 20 | It was developments in sampling theory from statistics which weakened the force of both these assumptions , and quite early on in Britain . |
| 21 | As the Club Conference Committee was struggling to express this wider vision in an initial Statement of Aims , it was Philip in 1964 who produced the winning title that we all now take for granted — Frontier Youth Trust . |
| 22 | It was Field in 1977 who had suggested that the glucose/sugar component of oral rehydration solutions could be replaced by long chain polymers of glucose , ie. starch . |
| 23 | It was hardship in this , that er , perhaps the hardest time came after it when er , well it was called public assistance then , social security payments had to be payed back . |
| 24 | Course , it was horses in them days , not motorcars . |
| 25 | It was July in London , and the city was alive . |
| 26 | It was work in the days I 'm telling you about . |
| 27 | It was pride in his beauty that was his undoing ! ’ |
| 28 | It was slavery in all but name , and names meant little to those who had to endure it . |
| 29 | As railway employment declined ( there were two million railway workers in 1920 and only one million in 1930 ) it was Blacks in unskilled work who were the most vulnerable . |
| 30 | For many of the authors discussed above , it was changes in the rules ( however defined ) governing behaviour . |