Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd ban coincidences , if I were a dictator of fiction . |
| 2 | Even if I were a man of deep sensibility and tact — and it sounds pretty wimpish to me ! — I still needed a good night 's sleep . |
| 3 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
| 4 | If I were a teacher of French , I would be worried that 50 million French people would know ‘ my ’ subject better than I do ; as it is I have no such fears . |
| 5 | ‘ Money can not soften some things , ’ Wilson said ‘ and you can not begin to imagine the insults , the nature of the insults , as though I were a woman of the streets … |
| 6 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 7 | I was a mixture of desperately upset and very excited , because this was the first physical sign , apart from throwing up , about what was going on . |
| 8 | I was a boy of about thirteen snows when my parents sent me away into the hills … to find my Wyakin . |
| 9 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 10 | when I was a boy of fifteen you were expected to half acre of neeps in the day . |
| 11 | I was a kind of maid of all works : conducting , coaching , taking chorus rehearsals . |
| 12 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
| 13 | ‘ I was a slip of a lad when the war started , ’ he lamented . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I was a couple of minutes early . |
| 15 | Oh yeah cos I was a couple of years later than that , so I managed to , sort of , avoid the first year or so |
| 16 | I told the man that I was a friend of hers before she married Nigel Hughes . |
| 17 | Following these up , I went into a chemist 's shop , introduced myself to the tall lady assistant and said that I was a friend of her future husband 's brother . |
| 18 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was a friend of [ PWS chairman ] Lord Pearson 's daughter at Cambridge . |
| 20 | I then said I was a friend of Sir Randolph Routh and that if the agent was not immediately taken in charge for assault , I should send in the strongest adverse report on his conduct of this entire vile business . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I was a bird of paradise before , but that was in the flow of what never quite materialised — that new play ? |
| 22 | Moreover , as the joker in the pack , the only person without a partner , I was a subject of general interest , and to make matters still worse , Lynn Carter had conceived a pallid intellectual crush on me and was always hanging around trying to engage me in conversation . |
| 23 | ‘ It was over two months ago that I was approached about the job , terms were agreed and I was a part of Bill Fox 's presidential platform . |
| 24 | Now I was a man of property , the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford , with investments so extensive I had no detailed idea of their scope and access to current and deposit accounts totalling well into six figures . |
| 25 | I was a man of substance now , I had arrived . |
| 26 | I was a holiday of sorts taking in the Amazon and rainforests . |
| 27 | In 1958 then , I was a member of what we knew was the premier force in the area with the external boundaries of the adjacent forces as our immediate threshold to what Douglas ( 1966 : 137 ) had called ‘ new status ’ . |
| 28 | In 1970 I was a member of an Anglo-American theatre troupe , the Wherehouse La Mama Company . |
| 29 | For some four years between 1922 and 1926 , I was a member of the choir at The Trinity Hospital Chapel opposite Robbins ' . |
| 30 | When I was a member of the European Assembly , we were forever shaking hands with our European colleagues of all nationalities — and it was expected . |