Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it was Lord Rawlinson , the Lord Chancellor manque and former Attorney General ? |
| 2 | Or perhaps it was kind of Alan . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it was cows . |
| 4 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 5 | A penalty in the opening minutes of their game last October gave them 3 points , or perhaps it was goalkeeper , Nicky Hammond who saved the 3 points . |
| 6 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 7 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 8 | ‘ Or maybe it was Nationalists . ’ |
| 9 | Except that when Mrs Tremayne were dying , I thought I heard her say something about someone called Ash , or maybe it was Nash . |
| 10 | Or maybe it was Morgan Supersad . |
| 11 | Or maybe it was Friday . ’ |
| 12 | I finally spotted a young man and a girl dressed as she 'd said she would be in shalwar kameez , a short tunic over long trousers , the traditional Muslim attire ; a cool white scarf around her head and a long coat , and luckily it was Yasmin . |
| 13 | Thalberg was interested but thought that it was not quite MGM 's thing as that studio was moving away from its earlier interest in realistic films towards glossier entertainment , and eventually it was Chaplin who arranged the film 's release through United Artists , although Vidor had to mortgage his every possession before firm backing was achieved . |
| 14 | But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance . |
| 15 | I crawled out from under the back of the tractor just in case anybody thought to peer into the barn , and was about to use the lawn-mower for cover when my foot caught something hard and suddenly I was face down on the ground again . |
| 16 | But will the form teacher be able to do as you would do in English and say , but look when you did that written piece on so and so it was goo , the form teacher will not have that detailed knowledge that you will have |
| 17 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 18 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 19 | And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve . |
| 20 | Is it A , Sid Vicious , B , Johnny Rotten , or C er Malcolm Maclaren , and apparently it was Johnny Rotten . |
| 21 | ‘ And anyway it was Balboa . ’ |
| 22 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 23 | And soon it was trees , and then they parked . |
| 24 | THE MONTHS PASSED , and soon it was autumn . |
| 25 | London was almost at a standstill , said the man in the cigarette queue , and now it was Liverpool 's turn . |
| 26 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 27 | She went slowly along to the door she knew led into his study , and now it was Jenna 's brow that was creased in a frown . |
| 28 | Joseph , Tamar , sometimes even George had stood up to him ; and now it was Martha , his youngest . |
| 29 | He did n't remember very much more of the evening , and now it was Sunday and instead of enjoying himself he was worrying about ties with geometric designs . |
| 30 | Funny how it had been malai policy to murder him and , earlier , the young men in the television crew , and now it was policy to stand them , or their kind , a round at the bar . |