Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 2 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 3 | Lydia was enraged at the injustice of this and said she was definitely going home now , and what 's more her feet were hurting . |
| 4 | He frowned when reporting this and said it was not good that she should be so hard . |
| 5 | Maggie , 37 , said : ‘ We feel very sad about this and wish it was n't happening but we are friends and always will be . |
| 6 | She recalled singing in both operas at Boosback as a 16-year-old and says she was amazed to be given the female lead in The Beggars ' and only three weeks in which to learn the words and music ! |
| 7 | She had a lot of hair , but it was so tangled and matted it was impossible to determine the colour . |
| 8 | He said he 'd just come back from Amsterdam and he had tried some and said it was great and did I know where he could get some . |
| 9 | In addition , having listened repeatedly to the cassette he felt much happier in himself , realizing that the stammer which so embarrassed and distressed him was not going to prove incurable . |
| 10 | Unionist MP David Trimble has written to the Heritage Secretary seeking his help in persuading Channel 4 to go public and concede it was conned into broadcasting the highly controversial allegations in its Dispatches programme in 1991 . |
| 11 | These new words can be proved by taking statements from an aggrieved person(s) to say how harassed , alarmed or distressed he was . |
| 12 | The composite that reached us was not attractive : to wear gloves , to redecorate and to pursue vicious joyless affairs under false names in highway motels . |
| 13 | This general modesty about the rights and powers of human reason might not appear a very dangerous threat to natural theology , but the way in which Hume sharpened and applied it was to have a quite shattering impact . |
| 14 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 15 | And I waited behind there till quarter past six and thought she was n't coming , and so I got out from behind the pillar … and she got out from behind hers ! |
| 16 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 17 | In a long conversation to another close friend near the end of June , Antonia said she was upset and worried she was n't seeing enough of her Minister . |
| 18 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 19 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 20 | He pleaded guilty and said he was thirsty . |
| 21 | He began trying on his mother 's clothing when he was eight and realised he was a transexual when he was 17 . |
| 22 | The basis for the objections was that the RRA considered the site to be unsuitable and felt it was chosen by the IDA simply because the land was to hand . |
| 23 | ‘ I used Victoria when I was younger and thought it was terrible , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Farrar was short with livery lips and thick black eyebrows , and Something was prematurely bald and thought he was really cool . |
| 25 | Aware of further frosty looks from Seb 's parents Nutty looked suitably repentant and said she was sorry for trespassing . |
| 26 | How wispy and thin it was . ’ |
| 27 | She turned away and heard the door softly closing and knew she was alone . |
| 28 | How cold and calculated he was . |
| 29 | All that amazed her was that he had not expected that . |
| 30 | All that got you was humiliation . |