Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clothes his cousin , Lady Angela , chose for me were quite the most fabulous things you 've ever seen . " |
| 2 | Her treatment of me was just the old game with the affectionate part left out . |
| 3 | One of them was probably the Samara guberniia , where since July 1920 a Left Socialist Revolutionary peasant called Sapozhkov had led an insurrection in the Buzuluk uezd . |
| 4 | The suspicions which Englishmen voiced about papal intervention in the realm had various roots , but one of them was surely the disproportionately small representation of the English church in the Curia . |
| 5 | All the rest of it was just the things humans say to each other to make sure that they 're still alive . ’ |
| 6 | the rest of it was just the original house , you know , it was a beautiful place , why they pulled it down |
| 7 | But it was the nightmare — she needed the drink to cope with the nightmare , and because the nightmare was an image from her past it was all the more powerful , the images and details razor sharp . |
| 8 | He coasts it through Southwark to the Old Vic , crosses Waterloo Bridge , heads west along the Strand into Trafalgar Square — empty of pigeons in the dove-grey light — mooches out through the West End , glides round Hyde Park Corner as if it was always free of traffic , and drops us in Earls Court like it was just the street next door . |
| 9 | To their backs and distant were the foothills of the Ta Pa Shan , but before them was only the plain . |
| 10 | Maybe he should go back , but inside him was still the lump of anger against them . |
| 11 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 12 | Her feeling for him was now the breath and life of Tess 's being . |
| 13 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 14 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |