Example sentences of "[noun] was [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gossip was they lost a fair bit in the stock market . |
| 2 | On only one occasion was I given an address , and had to be content with those of head offices . |
| 3 | And then when Suzanne was she had a lot of trouble carrying her about and she had to be in hospital quite a bit |
| 4 | The trouble was I chose the wrong product if I hoped to make myself a fortune . |
| 5 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 6 | Thing was we had an awful lot of complaints last July , so it may not show an increase overall . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 8 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 9 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 10 | Well I wondered if he 'd wa he 'd gone out on the Nottingham cos I wondered what would happen to the mascot was he shot the mascot , after the the game ? |
| 11 | was a great man but the only problem was he left a vested interested in the National Health Service and that 's coming to the fore . |
| 12 | The problem was she had no real idea of what she was going to say or do when she got to the château . |
| 13 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 14 | ‘ Whose idea was it to take the speedboat ? |
| 15 | ‘ Whose damned silly idea was it to use the fork ? ’ he asked thickly . |
| 16 | As we packed Charlie 's things in the attic , Dad and I talked about Charlie 's problem : the fact was he knew the band did n't have an original sound . |
| 17 | Something that was of interest was him mentioning a discussion with his wife , where he said he tells her he intends to retire at 55 . |
| 18 | Where on earth was he to get the funds for Paris amusements ? |