Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the goal of curriculum enhancement it was possible for a junior member of staff with specific subject expertise to support a senior colleague without such expertise ; but when the goal was professional development it required a clear status differential between senior partner as trainer or consultant and junior partner as trainee or client . |
| 2 | Turning to face Luce , his hands thrust into the pockets of his beige trousers , he went on , ‘ Last year I decided it was high time I had a wife and family . |
| 3 | And while I continued to make my contribution , I really did feel it was high time I started looking out for number one . |
| 4 | He was twenty-one — a man — and it was high time he started living his life to the full . |
| 5 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 6 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 7 | And it was high time she retired . |
| 8 | It was long day you know . |
| 9 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
| 10 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 11 | And it was good whisky they got was too new made you see . |
| 12 | Sunnyside Road , and erm , it were it was good accommodation we had our own bathroom and toilet er but again accommodation was cramped , we had no spare room |
| 13 | So yeah do n't , you do n't need the nought there but it was good thinking you put it in , putting it in . |
| 14 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 15 | Mostly it was hot chocolate she made , warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it . |
| 16 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 17 | And if it was bad weather he 'd to take them home again . |
| 18 | After we 'd satisfied ourselves that there was sufficient prey I went off to walk the terrain . |
| 19 | Oh I was massive man I had a double chin an'all . |